Marion Pluskota

Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports

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Produktbeschreibung

How prostitution is perceived in the context of social control and urban change is key to understanding the evolving attitudes to gender and sexuality in the eighteenth century. In this comparative study, Marion Pluskota offers an analysis of the lives of prostitutes that looks beyond a purely criminal perspective, and which encompasses their roles within their families, relationships and social networks. Using police and judicial records, she provides a valuable corrective to the narrow analysis of prostitutes in terms of immorality or deviance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781848935617
• ISBN-10: 1848935617
• Artikelnr.: 43488197

Autorenporträt

Marion Pluskota is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. Social origins and family ties of port prostitutes II. A
widening sphere? Prostitutes and labour relations in a port environment
III. Prostitutes and police territorialisation: from informal control to a
better supervision of the population IV. Prostitution and criminality: when
informal control is not enough. Community, police and the court's
interactions with prostitutes V. Spatial distribution of prostitutes:
Agency and appropriation of the urban space Conclusion. The elites and the
prostitutes of the ports.