Selling women : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan / Amy Stanley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Amy, 1978-

Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 21.

Asia: local studies/global themes ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Japan--History.

Prostitution.

Prostitutes--Japan--Social conditions.

Prostitutes.

Women--Sexual behavior--Japan--History.

Women.

Sex--Japan--History.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book 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, it describes how the work of "selling women" transformed communities across the archipelago. By focusing on the social implications of prostitutes' 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

A Note on Currency and Prices

Introduction

Part One. Regulation and the Logic of the Household

Part Two. Expansion and the Logic of the Market

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613587213

9781280491986

1280491981

9780520952386

0520952383

OCLC:

793511135