Selling Songs and Smiles

Selling Songs and Smiles

Paperback (30 Dec 2006)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. This study unravels social attitudes toward female sexual entertainers.

Book information

ISBN: 9780824830977
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press
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Language: English
Weight: 236g
Height: 226mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 15mm