Selling Sex in the Reich
Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 April 2012
- ISBN 9780199657797
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 233x155x13 mm
- Weight 358 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Focusing on issues of deviance, class, and gender, Harris reassesses the experience of working in the sex trade in early-twentieth-century Germany, touching upon arguments about the meaning of prostitution and what its history tells about wider social developments.
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Selling Sex in the Reich focuses on the voices and experiences of prostitutes working in the German sex trade in the first half of the twentieth century. Victoria Harris develops a nuanced picture of the prostitutes' backgrounds, their reasons for entering the trade, and their attitudes towards their work and those who sought to control them, as well as of their clients and the wide variety of other players within the wider prostitute milieu. Public responses to the issue of prostitution are revealed through the motivations of the law enforcement agencies, social workers, and doctors who increasingly attempted to manage and contain prostitutes' movements and behaviour and to categorize them scientifically as a group.
Prostitution can help recast our understanding of sexuality and ethics, teaching us much about how German society defined itself through its definition of who did not belong within it. In addition, common conceptions of the relationship between the type of government in power and official attitudes towards sexuality are challenged. For, as Harris shows, the prevalent desire to control citizens' sexuality transcended traditional left-right divides throughout this period and intensified with economic and political modernization, producing surprising continuities across the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras.
Review from previous edition Harris' eye-opening and thought-provoking analysis of the history of prostitution in German society contributes substantially to our understanding of continuities across periods and to a more precise characterisation of the prostitutes' working environment.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Introduction: Rescuing the Fallen Woman
The Prostitute Experience
The Prostitute Milieu
The Prostitute and Society
The Prostitute and the State
Conclusion: Towards an understanding of the prostitute experience
Bibliography
Index
