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Selling sex in the Reich : prostitutes in German society, 1914-1945
- Title
- Selling sex in the Reich : prostitutes in German society, 1914-1945 / Victoria Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Victoria (Victoria Thomasin)
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2010]
- ©2010
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Details
- Description
- xii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Focusing on the testimonies of prostitutes working in the German sex trade in the first half of the twentieth century, Victoria Harris challenges pervasive and persistent myths about the hidden, voiceless world of prostitution. Based on provocative and previously unseen source materials, Selling Sex in the Reich offers a nuanced and vibrant picture of the prostitute milieu. Chronicling the often tense relationships between the wide variety of Germans involved in the sex trade and those bent on destroying it, Harris uncovers the surprising amount of control these women had over their lives. Although failing to marginalize prostitutes, government policy succeeded in widening control of citizens' social and sexual behaviour. Harris demonstrates that these attempts intensified with economic and political modernization, transcending traditional left-right divides. The surprising continuities across the Wilhemine, Weimar, and Nazi eras shed new light on Germany's increasingly restrictive conception of citizenship, which reached its culmination in the Third Reich."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Oxford scholarship online
- Uniform Title
- Oxford scholarship online
- Subject
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- 1900-1999
- Prostitution > Germany > History > 20th century
- Prostitutes > Germany > History > 20th century
- Prostitution > Social aspects > History > Germany > 20th century
- Moral conditions
- Prostitutes
- Prostitution
- Prostitution > Social aspects
- Social conditions
- Prostituierte
- Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933
- Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945
- Germany > Moral conditions > 20th century
- Germany
- Deutschland
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
- Contents
- Rescuing the fallen woman -- The prostitute experience -- The prostitute milieu -- The prostitute and society -- The prostitute and the state -- Towards an understanding of the prostitute experience.
- ISBN
- 9780199578573
- 0199578575
- 9780199657797
- 0199657793
- LCCN
- 2009939946
- OCLC
- ocn461268451
- 461268451
- SCSB-14688859
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library