by Alain Corbin
translated by Alan Sheridan
Harvard University Press, 1990
Paper: 978-0-674-95544-8 | Cloth: 978-0-674-95543-1
Library of Congress Classification HQ194.C6513 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.74209034

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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