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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Hardcover)
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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a
threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a
prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most
women by sacrificing that of only a few. Jill Harsin examines the
methods by which the police of Paris resolved the contradictions of
this situation--an extralgal adminsitrative system involving the
registration, regular medical examination, and periodic
administrative detention of all working-class prostitutes. As the
author shows, this regulatory system not only deprived prostitutes
of civil rights, but increasingly encroached on the rights of all
working women who, by the standards and definitions of the police,
exhibited suspicious moral character. Drawing on a variety of
sources, Professor Harsin presents statistical material on such
topics as prostitutes' criminality, providing new evidence for an
area hitherto dominated by speculation. Her work challenges
previous interpretations by showing a regulatory system well in
place during the Restoration. Jill Harsin is Assistant Professor of
History at Colgate University. Originally published in 1985. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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