Dangerous Pleasures by Gail Hershatter

A softcover edition with an illustrated front cover. There is some slight foxing.

Condition:  As New. Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 603 pages, 26 b/w photographs and 5 tables.

University of California Press

First Paperback Printing in 1999