Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

Brand: Harvard University Press

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$35.51 - $54.06
UPC:
9780674955448
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
9/1/1996
Release Date:
7/29/1996
Author:
Alain Corbin
Language:
english
Edition:
Reissue
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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.