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Love for Sale - Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia (Hardcover)
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Love for Sale - Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia (Hardcover)
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Love for Sale is the first study to examine the ubiquity of
commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the
nineteenth century through the fin de siecle. Colleen Lucey offers
a compelling account of how the figure of the sex worker captivated
the public's imagination through depictions in fiction and fine
art, bringing to light how imperial Russians grappled with the
issue of sexual commerce. Studying a wide range of media-from
little-known engravings that circulated in newspapers to works of
canonical fiction-Lucey shows how writers and artists used the
topic of prostitution both to comment on women's shifting social
roles at the end of tsarist rule and to express anxieties about the
incursion of capitalist transactions in relations of the heart.
Each of the book's chapters focus on a type of commercial sex,
looking at how the street walker, brothel worker, demimondaine,
kept woman, impoverished bride, and madam traded in sex as a means
to acquire capital. Lucey argues that prostitution became a focal
point for imperial Russians because it signaled both the promises
of modernity and the anxieties associated with Westernization. Love
for Sale integrates historical analysis, literary criticism, and
feminist theory and conveys how nineteenth-century beliefs about
the "fallen woman" drew from medical, judicial, and religious
discourse on female sexuality. Lucey invites readers to draw a
connection between rhetoric of the nineteenth century and today's
debate on sex workers' rights, highlighting recent controversies
concerning Russian sex workers to show how imperial discourse is
recycled in the twenty-first century.
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