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Tolerated Evil: Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century

Tolerated Evil: Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century

Sikorska-Kulesza, Jolanta
Burzyński, Jan
Fazan, Jaroslaw

Hardcover

Series: Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Book 30

Eastern European HistoryGeneral European HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 3631815840
ISBN13: 9783631815847
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jul 31 2020
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought to maintain control over prostitution and the health of women who offered paid sexual services. The author uses data collected by the police and medical authorities supervising legal and illegal prostitution to provide a demographic and sociological picture of the big-city and small-town market of sexual commerce. It was only in the early twentieth century when prostitution became an important subject of the Polish public debate, a process which is described in the book against the backdrop of the major issues and fears of the epoch.

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