Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 - Hardcover

Corbin, Alain

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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 same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

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About the Authors

Alain Corbin is Professor of History at the Sorbonne.

Alan Sheridan's most recent book is Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth. He has also translated over 50 books, including works by Sartre, Lacan, and Foucault.

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ISBN 10:  0674955447 ISBN 13:  9780674955448
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996
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