Selling Sex in the Reich
Product details Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (May 13, 2010) Language : English Hardcover : 288 pages ISBN-10 : 0199578575 ISBN-13 : 978-0199578573 Item Weight : 1.12 pounds Dimensions : 9.3 x 0.7 x 6.1 inches Selling Sex in the Reich focuses on the voices and experiences of prostitutes working in the German sex trade in the first half of the twentieth century. Victoria Harris develops a nuanced picture of the prostitutes' backgrounds, their reasons for entering the trade, and their attitudes towards their work and those who sought to control them, as well as of their clients and the wide variety of other players within the wider prostitute milieu. Public responses to the issue of prostitution are revealed through the motivations of the law enforcement agencies, social workers, and doctors who increasingly attempted to manage and contain prostitutes' movements and behaviour and to scientifica...