Selling Women

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17th century japan
18th century japan
19th century japan
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discrimination of women
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780520270909
  • Weight: 544g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Jun 2012
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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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 social implications of prostitutes' economic behavior, this study offers a new understanding of how and why women who work in the sex trade are marginalized. It also demonstrates how the patriarchal order of the early modern state was undermined by the emergence of the market economy, which changed the places of women in their households and the realm at large.
Amy Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.