Women for Hire

Women for Hire Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850

Paperback (30 Aug 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

Book information

ISBN: 9780674955448
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.74209034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xvii, 478
Weight: 689g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 27mm