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The Devil's Chain - Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Hardcover)
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The Devil's Chain - Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Hardcover)
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In the half-century before Poland's long-awaited political
independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country's burgeoning
sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil's
Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex
throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a
previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety,
and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation
with prostitution in the context of Poland's struggle for political
independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces
the Poles' growing anxiety about white slavery, venereal disease,
and eugenics by examining the regulation of the female body, the
rise of medical authority, and the role of social reformers in
addressing the problem of paid sex.Stauter-Halsted argues that the
sale of sex was positioned at the juncture of mass and elite
cultures, affecting nearly every aspect of urban life and bringing
together sharply divergent social classes in what had long been a
radically stratified society. She captures the experiences of the
impoverished women who turned to the streets and draws a vivid
picture of the social milieu that shaped their choices. The Devil's
Chain demonstrates that discussions of prostitution and its
attendant disorders-sexual deviancy, alcoholism, child abuse,
vagrancy, and other related problems-reflected differing visions
for the future of the Polish nation.
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