Selling Songs and Smiles by Janet R. Goodwin

Selling Songs and Smiles

Janet R. Goodwin

224 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Selling Songs and Smiles explores female sexual entertainment (songs and smiles) during Japan's Heian and Kamakura periods, examining the gradual construction of a transgressive identity (prostitute) for women engaged in the sex trade. Over some f...

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