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Weimar through the lens of gender : prostitution reform, woman's emancipation, and German democracy, 1919-33 /

Until 1927, Germany had a system of state-regulated prostitution, under which only those prostitutes who submitted to regular health checks and numerous other restrictions on their personal freedom were tolerated by the police. Male clients of prostitutes were not subject to any controls. The decrim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roos, Julia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.
Colección:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disciplining women and containing "pollution" : the rationale of regulationism
  • From outcasts to citizens : tracing the lives and movements of Weimar prostitutes
  • Did the feminists fail? The women's movement, prostitution reform, and the contradictory potentials of maternalism
  • Toward a new morality? The left and the problem of prostitution
  • The politics of "immorality" : prostitution reform, the conservative backlash, and the crises of Weimar democracy.