Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850

by Alain Corbin

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674955447
• ISBN13: 9780674955448
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"