Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850

by Alain Corbin

Book Overview

Depicts prostitution in 19th-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. This text reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the profitable sale of services.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674955447
• ISBN13: 9780674955448
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"