(Ebook free) Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan
| #2133309 in Books | University of Hawaii Press | 2006-12-31 | 2006-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.51 x5.98l,.85 | File Name: 0824830970 | 224 pages |
||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great Read|By AllTheSh0pping|Great resource for women's cultural studies during the Heian period.||"[This] is a work of weight; it is concise, focused, meticulously researched, and written with nuance and aplomb."
"Goodwin offers an erudite account that acknowledges all prior scholarly work on the subject.... The book is packed with juicy detail
Selling Songs and Smiles explores female sexual entertainment ("songs and smiles") during Japan’s Heian and Kamakura periods, examining the gradual construction of a transgressive identity ("prostitute") for women engaged in the sex trade. Over some four hundred years, the character and public image of sexual entertainment was shaped by growing restrictions on female sexual activity and increasingly negative views of the female body―themselves the resu...
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