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Of vice and women : shades of prostitution
- Title
- Of vice and women : shades of prostitution / Margaretha Järvinen ; translated by Karen Leander.
- Author
- Järvinen, Margaretha.
- Publication
- Oslo, Norway : Scandinavian University Press : Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology ; Oxford ; New York : Distributed world-wide excluding Norway by Oxford University Press, ©1993.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Leander, Karen
- Description
- 191 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Scandinavian studies in criminology ; v. 13
- Uniform Title
- Scandinavian studies in criminology ; v. 13.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-191).
- Contents
- Foreword / Annika Snare -- 1. Prostitution and Control -- Theoretical Approaches. 1.1. A Functionalist Perspective. 1.2. A Feminist Perspective. 1.3. A Social Interactionist/Constructionist Perspective -- 2. Prostitution in Helsinki -- Issues and Data. 2.1. The Nature of Prostitution Control. 2.2. The Relativity of Prostitution. 2.3. Professionalism -- Amateurism. 2.4. Controlling Prostitution -- Controlling Women. 2.5. Interrogation Records of the Vice Police. 2.6. The Vagrancy Register. 2.7. Criminal Police Information on Procuring. 2.8. ALKO's Information About Restaurant Prostitution. 2.9. Interviews With Key Informants. 2.10. Interviews With Prostitutes. 2.11. Observations at Restaurants -- 3. Controlling Prostitution. 3.1. A Historical Review. 3.2. The 1936 Vagrancy Act and Legal Criteria. 3.3. Criticisms Against the Vagrancy Act. 3.4. Prostitution as a Societal Problem. 3.5. Developments Within Vagrancy Control. 3.6. Background Information About the Prostitutes.
- 4. Prostitution Environments: Streets, Restaurants and Youth Hang-Outs. 4.2. The Street as Prostitution Milieu. 4.3. Restaurants as Prostitution Milieu. 4.4. Prostitution as a Youth Problem -- 5. Newer Prostitution Environments. 5.1. Unemployed, Homeless Women With Alcohol Problems. 5.2. Call-Girls and Hotel Prostitutes in Earlier Decades. 5.3. Call-Girls and Hotel Prostitutes in the 1980s -- 6. Amateurs and Professionals. 6.1. Prostitution as Social Relations. 6.2. Prostitution as Identity. 6.3. Prostitution as Occupational Ideology. 6.4. Prostitution as Subculture -- 7. Controlling Prostitution -- Controlling Women: Conclusions. 7.1. Prostitution and Female Sexuality. 7.2. Prostitution and Female Drinking. 7.3. Prostitution and Family Life. 7.4. Prostitution and Poverty.
- ISBN
- 8200212831
- 9788200212836
- LCCN
- 93185436
- OCLC
- ocm28165800
- 28165800
- SCSB-1985274
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library