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Black market business : selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 / Christina Elizabeth Firpo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501752674
  • 9781501752667
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ242 .B533 2020
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Contents:
Venereal disease: policing the sources of infection -- Unfree labor: debt bondage and human trafficking -- Girls for sale: juvenile prostitution -- Đào singers: new ways to police female performance art -- Taxi dancers: Western culture and the urban-rural divide.
Subject: "Drawing on hundreds of detailed cases of sex work, this book examines the informal economy for clandestine prostitution that developed in the late colonial period in Vietnam and explores the geographic layout of Tonkin's black market sex industry; the widespread use of unfree labor in the form of debt bondage and human trafficking; the market for adolescent girls; and clandestine prostitution in ả đào singing houses and Western-style dance halls"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HQ242.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1145921997

Includes bibliographies and index.

The geography of vice: spatial dimensions of clandestine sex work -- Venereal disease: policing the sources of infection -- Unfree labor: debt bondage and human trafficking -- Girls for sale: juvenile prostitution -- Đào singers: new ways to police female performance art -- Taxi dancers: Western culture and the urban-rural divide.

"Drawing on hundreds of detailed cases of sex work, this book examines the informal economy for clandestine prostitution that developed in the late colonial period in Vietnam and explores the geographic layout of Tonkin's black market sex industry; the widespread use of unfree labor in the form of debt bondage and human trafficking; the market for adolescent girls; and clandestine prostitution in ả đào singing houses and Western-style dance halls"--

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