Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850 by Alain Corbin

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850

Alain Corbin with Alan Sheridan (Translator)

512 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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