Selling Songs and Smiles : : The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan /

Selling Songs and Smiles : : The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan / / Janet R. Goodwin.

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 c...

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Goodwin, Janet R.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Periods of Japanese History
  • Note on Primary Sources
  • Introduction
  • 1. Delightful Sirens and Delighted Patrons
  • 2. Defi ning Transgression
  • 3. Sacred Sex or Sexual Pollution? Asobi, Shamans, and Bodhisattvas
  • 4. Constructing the Prostitute
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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