Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai by Gail Hershatter

Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

Gail Hershatter

603 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative medium-paced
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This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassé elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and ge...

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