Selling women: prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• List of Illustrations (page ix)

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• Foreword (Matthew H. Sommer, page xi)

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• Acknowledgments (page xvii)

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• A Note on Currency and Prices (page xxi)

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• Introduction (page 1)

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• PART ONE. REGULATION AND THE LOGIC OF THE HOUSEHOLD
• 1. Adulterous Prostitutes, Pawned Wives, and Purchased Women: Female Bodies as Currency (page 23)

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• 2. Creating "Prostitutes": Benevolence, Profit, and the Construction of a Gendered Order (page 45)

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• 3. Negotiating the Gendered Order: Prostitutes as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers (page 72)

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• PART TWO. EXPANSION AND THE LOGIC OF THE MARKET (page 103)
• 4. From Household to Market: Child Sellers, "Widows," and Other Shameless People (page 111)

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• 5. Glittering Hair Ornaments and Barren Fields: Prostitution and the Crisis of the Countryside (page 134)

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• 6. Tora and the "Rules of the Pleasure Quarter" (page 163)

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• Conclusion (page 189)

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• Notes (page 199)

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• Bibliography (page 225)

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• Index (page 243)

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