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.
| ISBN: | 9780674955448 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 1996 |
| Author: | Alain Corbin |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 512 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Ethical issues and debates Gender studies: women and girls |