{"product_id":"2026200012905-secondhand-women-and-prostitution-a-social-history","title":"Women And Prostitution: A Social History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the brothels of ancient Mesopotamia to the red-light districts of the modern West, Women and Prostitution: A Social History presents one of the most comprehensive and unflinching accounts of the world's oldest profession ever committed to the historical record. Vern and Bonnie Bullough chronicle millennia of social, legal, and moral attitudes toward prostitution, mapping the complex intersections of gender, power, poverty, and sexuality that have shaped the lives of women across vastly different cultures and centuries. Drawing on a formidable breadth of primary sources and scholarly research, the authors argue that prostitution cannot be understood in isolation — it is a mirror held up to every society's treatment of women, class, and bodily autonomy.\n\nThe Bulloughs write with the authority of seasoned academics, yet their prose remains accessible and unfailingly rigorous, avoiding moralistic judgment in favour of clear-eyed historical analysis. Themes of patriarchal control, economic disenfranchisement, and the criminalisation of female sexuality recur throughout, lending the work a resonance that extends far beyond its ostensible subject. For anyone seeking to understand how societies have constructed, commodified, and condemned female sexuality through the ages, this landmark study raises questions whose answers remain urgently, uncomfortably relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203280642267,"sku":"2026200012905-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a49930c0-d6be-4fea-b7c9-e70f06121183.png?v=1788147430","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012905-secondhand-women-and-prostitution-a-social-history","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}