MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01506cam a22002894a 4500
001 2011047050
003 DLC
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008 111117s2012 cauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011047050
020 $a9780520270909 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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043 $aa-ja---
050 00 $aHQ247.A5$bS73 2012
082 00 $a306.740952$223
100 1 $aStanley, Amy,$d1978-
245 10 $aSelling women :$bprostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan /$cAmy Stanley ; foreword by Matthew H. Sommer.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2012.
300 $axxii, 256 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aAsia: local studies/global themes ;$v21
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-242) and index.
505 0 $aAdulterous prostitutes, pawned wives, and purchased women: female bodies as currency -- Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order -- Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers -- From household to market: child-sellers, "widows," and other shameless people -- Glittering hair ornaments and barren fields: prostitution and the crisis of the countryside -- Tora and the "rules of the pleasure quarter" -- Conclusion.
650 0 $aProstitution$zJapan$xHistory.
650 0 $aProstitutes$zJapan$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen$xSexual behavior$zJapan$xHistory.
650 0 $aSex$zJapan$xHistory.