Policing Prostitution In Nineteenth Century Paris

Author : Jill Harsin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691656908

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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Jill Harsin Pdf

Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most women by sacrificing that of only a few. Jill Harsin examines the methods by which the police of Paris resolved the contradictions of this situation--an extralgal adminsitrative system involving the registration, regular medical examination, and periodic administrative detention of all working-class prostitutes. As the author shows, this regulatory system not only deprived prostitutes of civil rights, but increasingly encroached on the rights of all working women who, by the standards and definitions of the police, exhibited suspicious moral character. Drawing on a variety of sources, Professor Harsin presents statistical material on such topics as prostitutes' criminality, providing new evidence for an area hitherto dominated by speculation. Her work challenges previous interpretations by showing a regulatory system well in place during the Restoration. Jill Harsin is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jill Harsin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608076430

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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Jill Harsin Pdf

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz,Jeannene M. Przyblyski
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415308658

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The Nineteenth-century Visual Culture Reader by Vanessa R. Schwartz,Jeannene M. Przyblyski Pdf

The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture. This reader brings together key writings on the period, exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising.

Author : Elisabeth Ann Weston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Prostitution
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036338262

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Prostitution in Paris in the Later Nineteenth Century by Elisabeth Ann Weston Pdf

Author : Jill Harsin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691198118

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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Jill Harsin Pdf

Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most women by sacrificing that of only a few. Jill Harsin examines the methods by which the police of Paris resolved the contradictions of this situation--an extralgal adminsitrative system involving the registration, regular medical examination, and periodic administrative detention of all working-class prostitutes. As the author shows, this regulatory system not only deprived prostitutes of civil rights, but increasingly encroached on the rights of all working women who, by the standards and definitions of the police, exhibited suspicious moral character. Drawing on a variety of sources, Professor Harsin presents statistical material on such topics as prostitutes' criminality, providing new evidence for an area hitherto dominated by speculation. Her work challenges previous interpretations by showing a regulatory system well in place during the Restoration. Jill Harsin is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Andrew Israel Ross
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439914885

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Public City/Public Sex by Andrew Israel Ross Pdf

In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafés, dancehalls, and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance of “individuals of both sexes with depraved morals” in these spaces. Andrew Israel Ross’s illuminating study, Public City/Public Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the development of gay and lesbian subcultures. Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city was understood.

Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367290

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Painted Love by Hollis Clayson Pdf

In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.

Author : Charles Bernheimer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822319470

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Figures of Ill Repute by Charles Bernheimer Pdf

Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0674955447

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Women for Hire by Alain Corbin Pdf

Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

Author : Jessica Tanner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810145856

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Sex Work, Text Work by Jessica Tanner Pdf

Though male French authors plotted prostitution to make their names—mimicking the surveillance of municipal authorities—the sex workers in their books manage to evade efforts to contain them While prostitutes in nineteenth-century Paris were subject to municipal laws that policed their bodies and movements, writers of the era enlisted them to stake their own claims on both the city and the novel as literary territory. Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel explores how prostitutes depicted by Émile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Adolphe Tabarant, and Charles-Louis Philippe “write back,” confounding civil and literary efforts to contain them in space and in narrative. In city-regulated brothels, brasseries à femmes, Haussmannian boulevards, and the novel itself, working-class prostitutes served to reinforce the boundaries of social inclusion and exclusion. And yet, Jessica Tanner contends, even the novels that most explicitly aligned with the disciplinary logic of regulated prostitution make space for a distinctly literary form of resistance: these women elude or disrupt the mapping that would claim them as literary territory, revealing their authors’ failure to secure their narratives as property. Tanner pushes back against the critical tendency to attribute agency only to courtesans who became published authors and forwards a new framework for understanding the political work novels engage in as they circulate. Observing that debates about the regulation of prostitution surfaced in tandem with racialized anxieties about the boundaries of the French nation, Tanner ultimately expands that framework to the history of French colonialism and the politics of immigration in the current day. This book shows that while sex workers have been recruited to mark the borders of civic and moral life, prostitution can also make space for more inclusive forms of community, both in the novel and in the world beyond its bounds.

Author : Catherine Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317321484

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Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886 by Catherine Lee Pdf

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.

Author : Rachel G. Fuchs,Rachel Ginnis Fuchs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052162102X

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Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Rachel G. Fuchs,Rachel Ginnis Fuchs Pdf

This is a major new history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys the extraordinary difficulties facing the destitute from England to Russia, paying particular attention to the texture of women's everyday lives. She shows their strength as they attempted to structure a life and set of relationships within a social order, culture, community, and the law. Within a climate of calamities, the poor relied on their own resourcefulness and community connections where the boundaries between the private and public were indistinguishable, and on a system of exchange and reciprocity to help them fashion their culture of expediencies. This accessible synthesis introduces readers to conflicting interpretations of major historic developments and evaluates those interpretations. It will be essential reading for students of women's and gender studies, urban history and social and family history.

Author : Brian Rigby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349118243

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French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Brian Rigby Pdf

This volume adopts a varied approach to the study of the 'material world' in the French literature, thought and visual arts of the 19th century. Contributors look not only at the Romantic and Realist transcendence of the Neo-classical heritage of abstraction and idealism, but also adopt modern critical perspectives to analyse central themes such as urbanisation, fetishism and the representation of the female body.

Author : Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521527015

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Mission and Method by Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge Pdf

This book argues that the french led the way in the nineteenth-century public health movement.

Author : Nancy M. Wingfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192521682

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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria by Nancy M. Wingfield Pdf

This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M. Wingfield seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-siècle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency to the women who participated in commercial sex, illuminate their quotidian experiences, and to place these women, some of whom made a rational economic decision to sell their bodies, in the larger social context of late imperial Austria. Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance. Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy. And after 1918, bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.