Tolerated evil
| Titel: | Tolerated evil : prostitution in the kingdom of Poland in the nineteenth century / Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza ; translated by Julita Mastalerz |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin; Bern; Wien : Peter Lang, [2020] |
| Umfang: | 353 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 22 cm, 529 g |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Polish studies - transdisciplinary perspectives ; volume 30 |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Zło tolerowane |
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Sikorska-Kulesza, Jolanta, 1957-. Tolerated Evil. - Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020. - Online-Ressource, 356 Seiten, 40 Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783631815847 ; 3631815840 |
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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.
