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Zusatztext "Amy Stanley's book provides a detailed and informed information to recent scholarship on the topic of prostitution." Informationen zum Autor Amy Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University. Klappentext "At last! a study that goes far beyond the urban-centered discourse with which we are already familiar to place the trafficking of women in a solid historical and comparative context. Through a carefully reasoned and balanced analysis of diverse sources! Stanley shows how prostitution practices varied. This book will set the standard for studies of prostitution in early modern Japan for decades to come." -Anne Walthall! University of California! Irvine " Selling Women is a remarkable achievement. With her gaze fixed firmly on the young women whose labor sustained prostitution as an industry! Amy Stanley traces shifts in the moral economy of the sex trade over the course of the Tokugawa era! and unveils the ironic consequences of economic growth and social change. This meticulously researched! wonderfully written book is a major contribution to the literature on gender and society in Japan." -David L. Howell! Harvard University Zusammenfassung 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, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword! Matthew H. Sommer Acknowledgments A Note on Currency and Prices Introduction Part One: Regulation and the Logic of the Household 1. Adulterous Prostitutes! Pawned Wives! and Purchased Women: Female Bodies as Currency 2. Creating "Prostitutes": Benevolence! Profit! and the Construction of a Gendered Order 3. Negotiating the Gendered Order: Prostitutes as Daughters! Wives! and Mothers Part Two: Expansion and the Logic of the Market 4. From Household to Market: Child Sellers! "Widows!" and Other Shameless People 5. Glittering Hair Ornaments and Barren Fields: Prostitution and the Crisis of the Countryside 6. Tora and the "Rules of the Pleasure Quarter" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
