The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

by Nancy M. Wingfield

This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M. Wingfield seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-si?cle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198801653
• ISBN13: 9780198801658
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"