Prostitution
Eine Begleiterin der Menschheit / A Companion of Mankind
Edited By Frank Jacob
Prostitution seems to be as old as humanity itself and is consequently not described as the «oldest profession» without cause. This anthology is an interdisciplinary, chronological and regional extensive approach to analyze the phenomenon. It provides a broad historical, sociological, cultural, and gender perspective on prostitution for the academic as well as the interested reader alike. It examines the role of prostitutes in society, the reception of the profession per se and the conditions due to which it is established.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2016. 568 S., 3 Tab., 3 Graf.
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- Prolog
- Einleitung
- Theoretical Section
- Hidden Prostitution: Subcultures, Gender and Cultural Mobility
- From Toleration to Stings: The Evolution of the American Law Enforcement Response to Prostitution
- Debates on Prostitution: An Introduction to Feminists Politics and Their Influence Upon International Policy and Practice
- “Relief for my cock, mind and heart feelin” shit”: Disability and Purchasing Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy
- (Homosexual) Male Sex Work: Sociological Representations, Social Realities and New Normalizations
- Zur Herkunft der Benennungen für Prostituierte innerhalb der Indogermania
- Area Studies Europe
- Männliche Prostitution in der Antike: Zwischen Topik, Polemik und sozialer Realität
- Hoards of Whores: Onomastic Mutability in Jacobean City Comedy
- Dealing with Scandalous Women in Colchester, 1850–1900
- A History of Prostitution Policy in the UK: Targeting the Problem, from Women to Men
- Prostitution and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Dublin Magdalene Asylum
- „Es gibt nur eine Moral, sie ist die gleiche für beide Geschlechter“ Die (alte) Frauenbewegung und die Frage der Prostitution (1897–1927)
- Sex-Zwangsarbeit. Häftlingsbordelle in NS-Konzentrationslagern
- Von der Schande zur Überlebensstrategie – Unterfränkische Perspektiven auf die Prostitution, 1933–1945
- Anstöße, Akteure, Öffentlichkeiten – Die Diskussion um die Prostitution in den US-Garnisonsstädten Kaiserslautern und Mannheim
- Zwischen staatlicher Repression und geheimdienstlicher Unterstützung – Prostitution in der DDR 1968–1989 am Beispiel der Stadt Rostock
- Nachtexpress. Eine Zeitschrift als Spiegel und Sprachrohr der deutschen Hurenbewegung
- Addio, Wanda! Merlin Law and the Abolition of Case Chiuse in Italy
- The Ambivalences of Sex. Commercial Sex, Rhetoric and Policies in Italy (from Merlin to Berlusconi)
- North and South America
- Selling Sex on the Canadian Prairies: Histories of Sex Work and Social Responses to the Sex Trade in Saskatchewan, 1880–1920
- From “Lewd Women” to “Little Brown Fucking Machines”: The U.S. Military and Prostitution at Home and Abroad, from the Revolutionary War through the Present
- Zones of Tolerance, Sites of Resistance: Military Control of Prostitution during the U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916–1924
- Images of Prostitution in Peruvian History: Legislation, Punishment, Public Health and Social Interest (XV–XX Centuries)
- Africa and Asia
- Pleasure for Sale: Prostitution in Colonial Africa, 1880s–1960s
- What’s the price? Über Prostitution, Aids und die Stigmatisierung von Prostituierten in Westafrika
- Prostitution in Mesopotamien
- Wearing Balmain, Dior, and Schiaparelli: Foreign Escorts in Hashemite Iraq
- Geschichte der Prostitution in Japan: Von der Tempeldienerin zur Barhostess
- Autorenverzeichnis
- Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Prolog
- Einleitung
- Theoretical Section
- Hidden Prostitution: Subcultures, Gender and Cultural Mobility
- From Toleration to Stings: The Evolution of the American Law Enforcement Response to Prostitution
- Debates on Prostitution: An Introduction to Feminists Politics and Their Influence Upon International Policy and Practice
- “Relief for my cock, mind and heart feelin” shit”: Disability and Purchasing Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy
- (Homosexual) Male Sex Work: Sociological Representations, Social Realities and New Normalizations
- Zur Herkunft der Benennungen für Prostituierte innerhalb der Indogermania
- Area Studies Europe
- Männliche Prostitution in der Antike: Zwischen Topik, Polemik und sozialer Realität
- Hoards of Whores: Onomastic Mutability in Jacobean City Comedy
- Dealing with Scandalous Women in Colchester, 1850–1900
- A History of Prostitution Policy in the UK: Targeting the Problem, from Women to Men
- Prostitution and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Dublin Magdalene Asylum
- „Es gibt nur eine Moral, sie ist die gleiche für beide Geschlechter“ Die (alte) Frauenbewegung und die Frage der Prostitution (1897–1927)
- Sex-Zwangsarbeit. Häftlingsbordelle in NS-Konzentrationslagern
- Von der Schande zur Überlebensstrategie – Unterfränkische Perspektiven auf die Prostitution, 1933–1945
- Anstöße, Akteure, Öffentlichkeiten – Die Diskussion um die Prostitution in den US-Garnisonsstädten Kaiserslautern und Mannheim
- Zwischen staatlicher Repression und geheimdienstlicher Unterstützung – Prostitution in der DDR 1968–1989 am Beispiel der Stadt Rostock
- Nachtexpress. Eine Zeitschrift als Spiegel und Sprachrohr der deutschen Hurenbewegung
- Addio, Wanda! Merlin Law and the Abolition of Case Chiuse in Italy
- The Ambivalences of Sex. Commercial Sex, Rhetoric and Policies in Italy (from Merlin to Berlusconi)
- North and South America
- Selling Sex on the Canadian Prairies: Histories of Sex Work and Social Responses to the Sex Trade in Saskatchewan, 1880–1920
- From “Lewd Women” to “Little Brown Fucking Machines”: The U.S. Military and Prostitution at Home and Abroad, from the Revolutionary War through the Present
- Zones of Tolerance, Sites of Resistance: Military Control of Prostitution during the U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916–1924
- Images of Prostitution in Peruvian History: Legislation, Punishment, Public Health and Social Interest (XV–XX Centuries)
- Africa and Asia
- Pleasure for Sale: Prostitution in Colonial Africa, 1880s–1960s
- What’s the price? Über Prostitution, Aids und die Stigmatisierung von Prostituierten in Westafrika
- Prostitution in Mesopotamien
- Wearing Balmain, Dior, and Schiaparelli: Foreign Escorts in Hashemite Iraq
- Geschichte der Prostitution in Japan: Von der Tempeldienerin zur Barhostess
- Autorenverzeichnis
- Index
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Introduction: Sex and Vice as an Allegory of the Social
In a distinctive work, Buci-Glucksmann1 observes, on the traces of Walter Benjamin, that the “urban development of prostitution as a mass phenomenon leading to legislation, along with the visible ‘massification’ of feminine bodies, expresses a historical change even more typical of the middle of the twentieth century-expressed in new relations between the visible and the invisible, the representable and unrepresentable, and their consequent practices and discourses”. In this perspective, women’s bodies as well as prostitution, are two allegories of the modern city, and as many collections of fragments, tantamount to the complexity of social life. In dealing with them, both legislators and society are not simply concerned with actual bodies and sex, but with the changes occurring in different realms of society. More bluntly, in such a perspective, discourse and regulations regarding commercial sex reflect, more often than not, a concern with changes in the economy, demography and the activities present in countries and cities, or in the international organization of labor division.
In this perspective, e.g., the killing of Mary Rogers – one of the most famous cases in the American history of sexual crimes – takes place in the changing New York of 1841. Over the course of the previous decade, in fact, the city had gone through significant transformations: the sudden industrialization of the area, the emergence of a politicized working-class, the growth of immigration, and the increasing polarization of the economic condition...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Prolog
- Einleitung
- Theoretical Section
- Hidden Prostitution: Subcultures, Gender and Cultural Mobility
- From Toleration to Stings: The Evolution of the American Law Enforcement Response to Prostitution
- Debates on Prostitution: An Introduction to Feminists Politics and Their Influence Upon International Policy and Practice
- “Relief for my cock, mind and heart feelin” shit”: Disability and Purchasing Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy
- (Homosexual) Male Sex Work: Sociological Representations, Social Realities and New Normalizations
- Zur Herkunft der Benennungen für Prostituierte innerhalb der Indogermania
- Area Studies Europe
- Männliche Prostitution in der Antike: Zwischen Topik, Polemik und sozialer Realität
- Hoards of Whores: Onomastic Mutability in Jacobean City Comedy
- Dealing with Scandalous Women in Colchester, 1850–1900
- A History of Prostitution Policy in the UK: Targeting the Problem, from Women to Men
- Prostitution and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Dublin Magdalene Asylum
- „Es gibt nur eine Moral, sie ist die gleiche für beide Geschlechter“ Die (alte) Frauenbewegung und die Frage der Prostitution (1897–1927)
- Sex-Zwangsarbeit. Häftlingsbordelle in NS-Konzentrationslagern
- Von der Schande zur Überlebensstrategie – Unterfränkische Perspektiven auf die Prostitution, 1933–1945
- Anstöße, Akteure, Öffentlichkeiten – Die Diskussion um die Prostitution in den US-Garnisonsstädten Kaiserslautern und Mannheim
- Zwischen staatlicher Repression und geheimdienstlicher Unterstützung – Prostitution in der DDR 1968–1989 am Beispiel der Stadt Rostock
- Nachtexpress. Eine Zeitschrift als Spiegel und Sprachrohr der deutschen Hurenbewegung
- Addio, Wanda! Merlin Law and the Abolition of Case Chiuse in Italy
- The Ambivalences of Sex. Commercial Sex, Rhetoric and Policies in Italy (from Merlin to Berlusconi)
- North and South America
- Selling Sex on the Canadian Prairies: Histories of Sex Work and Social Responses to the Sex Trade in Saskatchewan, 1880–1920
- From “Lewd Women” to “Little Brown Fucking Machines”: The U.S. Military and Prostitution at Home and Abroad, from the Revolutionary War through the Present
- Zones of Tolerance, Sites of Resistance: Military Control of Prostitution during the U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916–1924
- Images of Prostitution in Peruvian History: Legislation, Punishment, Public Health and Social Interest (XV–XX Centuries)
- Africa and Asia
- Pleasure for Sale: Prostitution in Colonial Africa, 1880s–1960s
- What’s the price? Über Prostitution, Aids und die Stigmatisierung von Prostituierten in Westafrika
- Prostitution in Mesopotamien
- Wearing Balmain, Dior, and Schiaparelli: Foreign Escorts in Hashemite Iraq
- Geschichte der Prostitution in Japan: Von der Tempeldienerin zur Barhostess
- Autorenverzeichnis
- Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Prolog
- Einleitung
- Theoretical Section
- Hidden Prostitution: Subcultures, Gender and Cultural Mobility
- From Toleration to Stings: The Evolution of the American Law Enforcement Response to Prostitution
- Debates on Prostitution: An Introduction to Feminists Politics and Their Influence Upon International Policy and Practice
- “Relief for my cock, mind and heart feelin” shit”: Disability and Purchasing Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy
- (Homosexual) Male Sex Work: Sociological Representations, Social Realities and New Normalizations
- Zur Herkunft der Benennungen für Prostituierte innerhalb der Indogermania
- Area Studies Europe
- Männliche Prostitution in der Antike: Zwischen Topik, Polemik und sozialer Realität
- Hoards of Whores: Onomastic Mutability in Jacobean City Comedy
- Dealing with Scandalous Women in Colchester, 1850–1900
- A History of Prostitution Policy in the UK: Targeting the Problem, from Women to Men
- Prostitution and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Dublin Magdalene Asylum
- „Es gibt nur eine Moral, sie ist die gleiche für beide Geschlechter“ Die (alte) Frauenbewegung und die Frage der Prostitution (1897–1927)
- Sex-Zwangsarbeit. Häftlingsbordelle in NS-Konzentrationslagern
- Von der Schande zur Überlebensstrategie – Unterfränkische Perspektiven auf die Prostitution, 1933–1945
- Anstöße, Akteure, Öffentlichkeiten – Die Diskussion um die Prostitution in den US-Garnisonsstädten Kaiserslautern und Mannheim
- Zwischen staatlicher Repression und geheimdienstlicher Unterstützung – Prostitution in der DDR 1968–1989 am Beispiel der Stadt Rostock
- Nachtexpress. Eine Zeitschrift als Spiegel und Sprachrohr der deutschen Hurenbewegung
- Addio, Wanda! Merlin Law and the Abolition of Case Chiuse in Italy
- The Ambivalences of Sex. Commercial Sex, Rhetoric and Policies in Italy (from Merlin to Berlusconi)
- North and South America
- Selling Sex on the Canadian Prairies: Histories of Sex Work and Social Responses to the Sex Trade in Saskatchewan, 1880–1920
- From “Lewd Women” to “Little Brown Fucking Machines”: The U.S. Military and Prostitution at Home and Abroad, from the Revolutionary War through the Present
- Zones of Tolerance, Sites of Resistance: Military Control of Prostitution during the U.S. Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916–1924
- Images of Prostitution in Peruvian History: Legislation, Punishment, Public Health and Social Interest (XV–XX Centuries)
- Africa and Asia
- Pleasure for Sale: Prostitution in Colonial Africa, 1880s–1960s
- What’s the price? Über Prostitution, Aids und die Stigmatisierung von Prostituierten in Westafrika
- Prostitution in Mesopotamien
- Wearing Balmain, Dior, and Schiaparelli: Foreign Escorts in Hashemite Iraq
- Geschichte der Prostitution in Japan: Von der Tempeldienerin zur Barhostess
- Autorenverzeichnis
- Index