TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza
AU  - Jan Burzyński
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3293
SN  - 9783631822388
TI  - Tolerated Evil
T2  - Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century
DO  - 10.3726/b16983
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114293
N2  - In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought to maintain control over prostitution and the health of women who offered paid sexual services. The author uses data collected by the police and medical authorities supervising legal and illegal prostitution to provide a demographic and sociological picture of the big-city and small-town market of sexual commerce. It was only in the early twentieth century when prostitution became an important subject of the Polish public debate, a process which is described in the book against the backdrop of the major issues and fears of the epoch.
KW  - social history, regimentation of prostitution, women`s history, venereal diseases, sexual education, women trafficking
LA  - English
ER  -