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  Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850 (Paperback) By (author) Alain Corbin, Translated by Alan Sheridan

  

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  Short Description for Women for HireDepicts prostitution in 19th-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. This text reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the profitable sale of services.
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  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 01 September 1996
  • Format: Paperback 512 pages
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  • Categories: Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry | Gender Studies: Women | Sexual Behaviour | European History | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780674955448 ISBN 10: 0674955447

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Full description for Women for Hire

• 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.