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The Devil's Chain : Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland /

"In the half-century before Poland's long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country's burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil's Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stauter-Halsted, Keely, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : reforming the national body
  • Out of the shadows
  • On the abyss : the turn to paid sex
  • Sex in the bourgeois family
  • Narratives of entrapment
  • Trafficking and human migration
  • The devil's chain
  • Female activism and the shadow state
  • The physician and the fallen woman
  • Purity and danger : prostitution reform and the birth of Polish eugenics
  • Sex in the new republic
  • Conclusion : prostitution and the shaping of the national community.