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Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850.
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1991
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Transactional SexFrench19Th-century FranceFrench LiteratureBusiness HistorySex Work StudiesGender StudiesFrench CultureCommercial SexSex IndustryEconomic HistoryBusinessFeminist PerspectiveCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesFemale Sexual SlaveryFeminist TheoryDepicts Prostitution
Depicts prostitution in 19th-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. This text reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the profitable sale of services.