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Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan
by
Amy Stanley
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 "selling women" transformed communities across the archipelago. By focusing on the soc...more
Hardcover, 282 pages
Published
June 19th 2012
by University of California Press
(first published May 20th 2012)
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