A01=Alain Corbin
Author_Alain Corbin
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Product details
- ISBN 9780674955448
- Weight: 689g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1996
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.
Alain Corbin is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Alan Sheridan is the author of Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth. He has also translated over 50 books, including works by Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault.
