The Devil's Chain : : Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland / / Keely Stauter-Halsted.
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 Polish...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 16 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reforming the National Body
- 1. Out of the Shadows
- 2. Into the Abyss: The Turn to Paid Sex
- 3. Sex and the Bourgeois Family
- 4. Narratives of Entrapment
- 5. Sex Trafficking and Human Migration
- 6. The Devil’s Chain
- 7. Female Activism and the Shadow State
- 8. The Physician and the Fallen Woman
- 9. Purity and Danger: Prostitution Reform and the Birth of Polish Eugenics
- 10. Sex in the New Republic
- Conclusion: Prostitution and the Shaping of the National Community
- Bibliography
- Index