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

Amy Stanley c2012 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
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  • 9780520270909
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  • Asian: Northeast (Japan, Korea)
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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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Reviews

Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JR 25 (2013): 210-212 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41959200
LHR 31.3 (2013): 629-630 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23489506
JSH 48.2 (winter 2014): 458-460 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/565728
HJAS 73.1 (2013): 207-211 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/508635
JJS 40.2 (summer 2014): 387-390 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/549047
MN 69.2 (2014): 278-283 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/565030

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