Selling Sex in the Reich
Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945
(Sprache: Englisch)
Focusing on issues of deviance, class, and gender, Harris reassess the experience of working in the sex trade in early-twentieth-century Germany, touching upon arguments about the meaning of prostitution and what its history tells about wider social developments.
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Focusing on issues of deviance, class, and gender, Harris reassess the experience of working in the sex trade in early-twentieth-century Germany, touching upon arguments about the meaning of prostitution and what its history tells about wider social developments.
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Selling Sex in the Reich focuses on the voices and experiences of prostitutes working in the German sex trade in the first half of the twentieth century. Victoria Harris develops a nuanced picture of the prostitutes' backgrounds, their reasons for entering the trade, and their attitudes towards their work and those who sought to control them, as well as of their clients and the wide variety of other players within the wider prostitute milieu. Public responses to the issue of prostitution are revealed through the motivations of the law enforcement agencies, social workers, and doctors who increasingly attempted to manage and contain prostitutes' movements and behaviour and to scientifically categorize them as a group. Prostitution can help recast our understanding of sexuality and ethics, teaching us much about how German society defined itself through its definition of who did not belong within it. In addition, common conceptions of the relationship between the type of government in power and official attitudes towards sexuality are challenged. For, as Harris shows, the prevalent desire to control citizens' sexuality transcended traditional left-right divides throughout this period and intensified with economic and political modernization, producing surprising continuities across the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Selling Sex in the Reich “
- Prologue
- Introduction: Rescuing the Fallen Woman
- 1: The Prostitute Experience
- 2: The Prostitute Milieu
- 3: The Prostitute and Society
- 4: The Prostitute and the State
- Conclusion: Towards an understanding of the prostitute experience
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Victoria Harris
Victoria Harris is a Research Fellow in History at King's College, Cambridge, where she also teaches and supervises topics in Modern European History.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Victoria Harris
- 2010, 234 Seiten, Maße: 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199578575
- ISBN-13: 9780199578573
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Harris' eye-opening and thought-provoking analysis of the history of prostitution in German society contributes substantially to our understanding of continuities across periods and to a more precise characterisation of the prostitutes' working environment. Ulrike Zitzlsperger, Times Higher Education
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