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Selling songs and smiles : the sex trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan / Janet R. Goodwin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodwin, Janet R., 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--Japan--History--To 1500.
- Prostitution.
- History.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Sex trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Selling Songs and Smiles explores female sexual entertainment during Japan's Heian and Kamakura periods, examining the gradual construction of a transgressive identity ("prostitute") for women engaged in the sex trade.
- Contents:
- Delightful sirens and delighted patrons
- Defining transgression
- Sacred sex or sexual pollution?
- Constructing the prostitute
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824830687
- 0824830970
- OCLC:
- 70836652
- Publisher Number:
- 9780824830687
- 9780824830977
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