Selling Songs And Smiles The Sex Trade in Heian And Kamakura Japan First Edition by Janet Goodwin ISBN 978-0824830687 0824830687
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ISBN 10: 0824830687
ISBN 13: 978-0824830687
Author: Janet R. Goodwin
Selling Songs and Smiles explores female sexual entertainment (“songs and smiles”) during Japans 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 character and public image of sexual entertainment was shaped by growing restrictions on female sexual activity and increasingly negative views of the female bodythemselves the result of socioeconomic change in society at large. Although it is possible to paint a picture of the general decline in the status of women in the sex trade, there were also ambiguities in how they were regarded by society in the very oldest extant references to them in historical sources. Using essays, diaries, legal documents, stories, and illustrated stories, this original and distinctive work unravels social attitudes toward female sexual entertainers and examines changes in their trade and the treatment they received at the hands of the court, the bakufu, and religious institutions.
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