Love for sale : representing prostitution in imperial Russia /

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"During the nineteenth century, Russian writers and artists explored the sex worker's trade, creating iconic works of literature and fine art. This book examines how such representations chart growing concerns about the challenge such sexually transgressive women posed to the social order&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lucey, Colleen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Temas:
1800-1899
Prostitutes in literature.
Prostitutes in art.
Russian literature > 19th century > Social aspects.
Prostitution > Social aspects > Russia.
Prostitution > Russia > History > 19th century.
Sex in literature.
Sex in art.
Prostituées dans la littérature.
Prostituées dans l'art.
Littérature russe > 19e siècle > Aspect social.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Sexualité dans l'art.
Prostitutes in art
Prostitutes in literature
Prostitution
Prostitution > Social aspects
Russian literature > Social aspects
Sex in art
Sex in literature
Russia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Policing Russia's public women
  • Russia's Babylon: prostitution in St. Petersburg
  • Safety valves of social passions": regulating commercial sex
  • Tricks of the trade: elite prostitution and the art of seduction
  • The dowerless bride on Russia's marriage market
  • "Hyenas in bonnets": the madam and her milieu
  • Commodifying domestic bliss: the kept woman in Russian fiction
  • Continuity through change: sex work from the imperial period to today

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