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The Devil's Chain : Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) : 16 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501701665
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7409438 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ217.7.A5 S73 2015eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reforming the National Body -- 1. Out of the Shadows -- 2. Into the Abyss: The Turn to Paid Sex -- 3. Sex and the Bourgeois Family -- 4. Narratives of Entrapment -- 5. Sex Trafficking and Human Migration -- 6. The Devil’s Chain -- 7. Female Activism and the Shadow State -- 8. The Physician and the Fallen Woman -- 9. Purity and Danger: Prostitution Reform and the Birth of Polish Eugenics -- 10. Sex in the New Republic -- Conclusion: Prostitution and the Shaping of the National Community -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the half-century before Poland's long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country's burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil's Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety, and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation with prostitution in the context of Poland's struggle for political independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces the Poles’ growing anxiety about white slavery, venereal disease, and eugenics by examining the regulation of the female body, the rise of medical authority, and the role of social reformers in addressing the problem of paid sex.Stauter-Halsted argues that the sale of sex was positioned at the juncture of mass and elite cultures, affecting nearly every aspect of urban life and bringing together sharply divergent social classes in what had long been a radically stratified society. She captures the experiences of the impoverished women who turned to the streets and draws a vivid picture of the social milieu that shaped their choices. The Devil’s Chain demonstrates that discussions of prostitution and its attendant disorders—sexual deviancy, alcoholism, child abuse, vagrancy, and other related problems—reflected differing visions for the future of the Polish nation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reforming the National Body -- 1. Out of the Shadows -- 2. Into the Abyss: The Turn to Paid Sex -- 3. Sex and the Bourgeois Family -- 4. Narratives of Entrapment -- 5. Sex Trafficking and Human Migration -- 6. The Devil’s Chain -- 7. Female Activism and the Shadow State -- 8. The Physician and the Fallen Woman -- 9. Purity and Danger: Prostitution Reform and the Birth of Polish Eugenics -- 10. Sex in the New Republic -- Conclusion: Prostitution and the Shaping of the National Community -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the half-century before Poland's long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country's burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil's Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety, and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation with prostitution in the context of Poland's struggle for political independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces the Poles’ growing anxiety about white slavery, venereal disease, and eugenics by examining the regulation of the female body, the rise of medical authority, and the role of social reformers in addressing the problem of paid sex.Stauter-Halsted argues that the sale of sex was positioned at the juncture of mass and elite cultures, affecting nearly every aspect of urban life and bringing together sharply divergent social classes in what had long been a radically stratified society. She captures the experiences of the impoverished women who turned to the streets and draws a vivid picture of the social milieu that shaped their choices. The Devil’s Chain demonstrates that discussions of prostitution and its attendant disorders—sexual deviancy, alcoholism, child abuse, vagrancy, and other related problems—reflected differing visions for the future of the Polish nation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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