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Sep 24, 2010 · Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai. by. Hershatter, Gail. Publication date. 1997. Topics. Prostitution, Women, Women. Publisher. Berkeley : University of California Press.
Over the past century, prostitution has been understood in many ways: as a source of urbanized pleasures, a profession full of unscrupulous and greedy schemers, a changing site of work for women, a source of moral danger and physical disease, a marker of national decay, and a sign of modernity.
- Gail Hershatter
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A black widow, who's left six dead husbands in her wake, is investigated by a detective and an insurance investigator. Starring Jacy Andrews Collin Bernsen Burke Morgan. Director Madison Monroe ...
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- Jacy Andrews
thrust of Dangerous Pleasures is to point out that naming an activity has implications: how prostitution is named affects how it will be discussed, and this, in tum, shapes the nature of interventions by the state and others.
A black widow, who's left six dead husbands in her wake, is investigated by a detective and an insurance investigator.
- Madison Monroe
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This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassé elites,...
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