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 | #2155076 in Books |  2006-11-30 |  2006-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.26 x.85 x6.38l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Dry but interesting|By The Reader|I was told to read this book for a class on Traditional Japan by a teacher who really enjoys giving the female perspective on any period in history. The book itself was, I thought, a little dry but gave interesting insights as to the practices of various women. Women could either be courtesans or wives (nuns and common prostitutes were not disc|About the Author|William R. Lindsey is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas.

As their ubiquitous presence in Tokugawa artwork and literature suggests, images of bourgeois wives and courtesans took on iconic status as representations of two opposing sets of female values. Their differences, both real and idealized, indicate the full range of female roles and sexual values affirmed by Tokugawa society, with Buddhist celibacy on the one end and the relatively free sexual associations of the urban and rural lower classes on the other.

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