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Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Amy Stanley
Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Amy Stanley
Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago.
282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 19, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520270909 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 282 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 234 × 22 mm · 534 g |
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