Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, 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 way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.
Women for Hire
Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
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$50.00 • £43.95 • €45.95
ISBN 9780674955448
Publication Date: 09/01/1996
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