Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

William R. Lindsey, Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. x+234 pp. $48.00, cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-3036-6.

FERTILITY AND PLEASURE represents an intriguingly varied literary and ritual history of women's heterosexuality in the Tokugawa era. The study grows out of Lindsey's concern with folk culture and the religion of everyday life, meaning that his work positions itself at the intersections of religious studies and cultural history. Proceeding from a general notion that ritual not only symbolizes but also enacts change, ...

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