Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in

Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)

This book traces the social history of early modern Japanâ€™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 prostitutesâ€™ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Amy Stanley
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520952386
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	283
PublicationDate	2012-06-19
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2012-06-15
Studio	University of California Press

Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)