Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850 (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Corbin, Alain ; Sheridan, Alan
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	09/01/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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