Women and prostitution : a social history /

Women and prostitution : a social history / Vern Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.

This book looks at the social and historical context of prostitution, exploring the forms and practices prostitution has assumed in many cultures over many centuries. Based on the assumption that one cannot understand prostitution without first understanding the role of women in society, this volume...

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Main Author: Bullough, Vern L.
Other Authors: Bullough, Bonnie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [1987]
Subjects:
Prostitution > History.
Prostitution.
Sex work.
Sexual practices.
Table of Contents:
  • Origins of prostitution
  • The ancient Near East : sacred and profane
  • The Greeks : pornography and fears about sex
  • The Romans : ambivalence
  • Christianity, Islam, and sexual morality
  • India and China : other views
  • Medieval Europe
  • The pox and reform
  • Kings and commoners
  • Regulation and the status quo
  • The American scene
  • Medicine, sex, and women
  • Abolition and the law
  • The changing double standard.

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