Love for Sale : : Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia / / Colleen Lucey.
Love for Sale is the first study to examine the ubiquity of commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the nineteenth century through the fin-de-siècle. Colleen Lucey offers a compelling account of how the figure of the sex worker captivated the public's imagination through...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 30 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction: Policing Russia’s Public Women
- 1. Russia’s Babylon: Prostitution in St. Petersburg
- 2. “Safety Valves of Social Passions”: Regulating Commercial Sex
- 3. Tricks of the Trade: Elite Prostitution and the Art of Seduction
- 4. The Dowerless Bride on Russia’s Marriage Market
- 5. “Hyenas in Bonnets”: The Madam and Her Milieu
- 6. Commodifying Domestic Bliss: The Kept Woman in Russian Fiction
- Conclusion: Contin uity through Change—Sex Work from the Imperial Period to Today
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index