ISBN:
3631822383
,
9783631822388
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (358 pages).
Series Statement:
Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives Ser. ; v. 30
Series Statement:
Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Burzynski, Jan. Tolerated Evil : Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century.
DDC:
306.7409481
Keywords:
1800-1899
;
Prostitution 19th century.
;
Prostitution
;
Poland
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Seires Information -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 THE STATE VERSUS PROSTITUTION: Rules, regulations and means of control -- 1. Between tolerance and repression -- prostitution in early modern Poland -- 2. The first regulation of prostitution -- Warsaw 1802 -- 3. The realm of projects and provisions (1815-1843) -- 4. The "necessary evil" and an ideal brothel -- 5. The system of supervising prostitution in the 2nd half of the 19th century -- medical-and-police committees in gubernias and districts
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 2: POLICE AND MEDICAL SUPERVISION OVER PROSTITUTION -- 1. The fight against "back-alley harlotry" -- 2. The scale of illicit prostitution and the characterisation of prostitutes -- 3. The infrastructure of harlotry -- panderers and pimps -- 4. The organisation of medical examination and treatment for prostitutes -- Chapter 3 LEGAL PROSTITUTION: Social and demographic analysis -- 1. The scale and territorial distribution of licensed prostitution -- 2. Brothel houses and their owners -- 3. The social and demographic makeup of tolerated prostitutes
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: PROSTITUTION IN THE EYES OF THE SOCIETY: Written discourse at the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries -- 1. Abolitionism vs. regimentationism -- 2. The perceived origins of prostitution -- 3. Aid for prostitutes and the struggle for a new morality -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index of geographical names -- Index of people -- Index of charts and graphs
