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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808374803321
• Autore: Stanley Amy <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-49198-1; 9786613587213; 0-520-95238-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Collana: Asia: local studies/global themes ; ; 21
• Disciplina: 306.740952
• Soggetti: Prostitution - Japan - History; Prostitutes - Japan - Social conditions; Women - Sexual behavior - Japan - History; Sex - Japan - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.