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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria (Hardcover)
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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria (Hardcover)
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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-siecle 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.
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