Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai

Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter.

This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh...

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Main Author: Hershatter, Gail
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Prostitution > China > Shanghai > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Shanghai > Social conditions.
Women > China > Shanghai > Economic conditions.
Prostitution.
prostitution.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
HISTORY / Asia / General
Prostitution
Social conditions
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Frau
Prostituees.
Prostitutie.
Femmes > Chine > Shanghai > Conditions sociales.
Prostitution > Chine > Shanghai > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Shanghai (China) > History > 20th century.
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions.
China > Shanghai
Schanghai
History
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