Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

Name: Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Alain Corbin
ISBN: 9780674955448

Alain Corbin

01/09/1996
Harvard University Press

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Couverture de Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 par Alain Corbin

Résumé

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.