The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria (PDF)
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This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems...
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This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M. Wingfield seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-siècle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency to the women
who participated in commercial sex, illuminate their quotidian experiences, and to place these women, some of whom made a rational economic decision to sell their bodies, in the larger social context of late imperial Austria. Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine
prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance.
Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy. And after 1918, bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the
war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.
who participated in commercial sex, illuminate their quotidian experiences, and to place these women, some of whom made a rational economic decision to sell their bodies, in the larger social context of late imperial Austria. Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine
prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance.
Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy. And after 1918, bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the
war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.
Autoren-Porträt von Nancy M. Wingfield
Nancy M. Wingfield received her PhD in history and an Area Studies Certificate for East Central Europe from Columbia University. A specialist on Habsburg Central Europe, she has edited and published a number of books and articles on the topic. Her research has had the support of ACLS, Fulbright, IREX, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and has been published in Czech, English, and Ukrainian. She is now beginning work on a project on imposters, migration, and traffickingin women.
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- Autor: Nancy M. Wingfield
- 2017, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192521683
- ISBN-13: 9780192521682
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.06.2017
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