Selling women : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan / Amy Stanley ; foreword by Matthew H. Sommer.

This book 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, it describes how the work of "...

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Main Author: Stanley, Amy, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 21.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central