Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
- ISBN-10
- 0520204395
- ISBN-13
- 9780520204393
- Series
- Dangerous Pleasures
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 591
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Gail Hershatter
Description
In the past decade, as prostitution once again has become a recognized feature of Chinese society, it has been incorporated into a larger public discussion about what kind of modernity China should seek and what kind of sex and gender arrangements should characterize that modernity. Prostitutes, like every other non-elite group, did not record their own lives.
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