Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dolinsek, Sonja; Hearne, Siobhán

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. It encourages comparative perspectives, which have the potential to question, deconstruct and re-adjust distinctions between western, eastern, northern and southern European historical experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000868999
• Artikelnr.: 67621155

Autorenporträt

Sonja Dolinsek has worked on a doctoral project on the transnational history of anti-trafficking and the politics of prostitution after 1945 with a focus on Germany, France, the United Kingdom and USA. She works at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University. Siobhán Hearne is a historian of gender and sexuality in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (2021), as well as various articles about prostitution, venereal diseases and pornography in imperial Russian and Soviet history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Prostitution in twentieth century Europe 1. Prostitution as
non-labour leading to forced labour: Vagrancy and Gender in Sweden and
Stockholm, 1919-1939 2. Police and prostitution in Yugoslavia: a nuanced
relationship 3. Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust 4.
Tensions of abolitionism during the negotiation of the 1949 'Convention for
the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the
Prostitution of Others' 5. Prostitution in socialist Yugoslavia: from
Stalinism to the Yugoslav way 6. The new face of Italian prostitution in
the aftermath of the Merlin Law: forms, debate and repression 7. Selling
sex under socialism: prostitution in the post-war USSR 8. 'Cleaning up the
cityscape': managing commercial sex and city space in Cologne, 1956-1972 9.
Greek trans women selling sex, spaces and mobilities, 1960s-80s