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Full referenceHershatter, Gail, “Courtesans and Streetwalkers: The Changing Discourses on Shanghai Prostitution, 1890-1949”, (1992)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Hershatter, Gail
Title“Courtesans and Streetwalkers: The Changing Discourses on Shanghai Prostitution, 1890-1949”,
Year1992
JournalJournal of the History of Sexuality,
Volume3
Number2
Start page245
End page269
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Keywordswomen; prostitution; press; social
AbstractExamines guidebooks and journalistic discourse to discern the changing attitudes toward prostitution in Shanghai during the first half of the 20th century. Turn-of-the-century and early 20th-century guidebooks often addressed elite clientele and described Shanghai prostitutes as cultured and refined women, calling them courtesans. Guidebooks also described the dangers presented by prostitutes, such as the embarrassment of rejection, being propositioned, or acquiring a venereal disease. Chinese newspapers offered a view of prostitutes that alternately described them as lower class, rural in origin, abused, kidnapped, and streetwalkers instead of courtesans. By the early 1940's guidebooks had joined the newspapers in regarding the prostitute as a dangerous and oppressed character.
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