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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. This study unravels social attitudes toward female sexual entertainers.

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"[This] is a work of weight; it is concise, focused, meticulously researched, and written with nuance and aplomb." - Monumenta Nipponica "Goodwin offers an erudite account that acknowledges all prior scholarly work on the subject.... The book is packed with juicy details, historically necessary and judiciously picked from sources not usually encountered. Of major interest, however, is Goodwin's ability to see behind the self-serving screens of political history, to divine the true intentions of this demonization of one of the few professions then open to women, and to present her facts in the fairest possible manner." - Japan Times"

Selling Songs and Smiles The Sex Trade in Heian

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824830977, 978-0824830977
      ISBN10: 0824830970
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      Asian history Social and cultural history Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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. This study unravels social attitudes toward female sexual entertainers.

      Trade Review
      "[This] is a work of weight; it is concise, focused, meticulously researched, and written with nuance and aplomb." - Monumenta Nipponica "Goodwin offers an erudite account that acknowledges all prior scholarly work on the subject.... The book is packed with juicy details, historically necessary and judiciously picked from sources not usually encountered. Of major interest, however, is Goodwin's ability to see behind the self-serving screens of political history, to divine the true intentions of this demonization of one of the few professions then open to women, and to present her facts in the fairest possible manner." - Japan Times"

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