Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris (eBook)

Jill Harsin (Autor)

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2019
448 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19811-8 (ISBN)

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Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most women by sacrificing that of only a few. Jill Harsin examines the methods by which the police of Paris resolved the contradictions of this situation--an extralgal adminsitrative system involving the registration, regular medical examination, and periodic administrative detention of all working-class prostitutes.As the author shows, this regulatory system not only deprived prostitutes of civil rights, but increasingly encroached on the rights of all working women who, by the standards and definitions of the police, exhibited suspicious moral character. Drawing on a variety of sources, Professor Harsin presents statistical material on such topics as prostitutes' criminality, providing new evidence for an area hitherto dominated by speculation. Her work challenges previous interpretations by showing a regulatory system well in place during the Restoration.Jill Harsin is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • abuse of power • Act of Violence • Administrative detention • adultery • alcoholism • American Association of University Women • Ancien Régime • Arbitrary arrest and detention • Archives nationales (France) • Arrest • assassination • Bankruptcy • blackmail • brothel • bureaucrat • cabinet noir • Charity Hospital (New Orleans) • Cholera • Ci-devant • Commissaire de police • Corruption • courtesan • Crime • Criminal charge • criminal justice • Criminal Record • Criminology • Cynicism (contemporary) • Death • defamation • Deportation • Disorderly conduct • Expungement • Extortion • Filth (novel) • Haute Couture • homicide • Housewife • imbecile • Impossibility • Imprisonment • In Death • Indication (medicine) • infidelity • investigative journalism • Josephine Butler • July Monarchy • larceny • Law and order (politics) • Lesbian • Looting • Lupanar (Pompeii) • madam • manslaughter • Mass arrest • Miscarriage • misdemeanor • napoleonic code • New Laws • orgy • Perversion • Pickpocketing • Police Act • Police action • Police Officer • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Police strike • Pornography • Prison • Procuring (prostitution) • Prohibitionism • Promiscuity • Prostitution • prostitution law • Public intoxication • Public nuisance • Real Crime • Recommendation (European Union) • ridicule • sans-culottes • Sedition • Seduction • sexual abstinence • Sexual Tension • Sexual Violence • Slavery • Slum • Social Exclusion • statutory rape • Suicide • suicide attempt • Theft • The History of Sexuality • The Pawnbroker • The Woman in Question • Tribunal correctionnel • Voyeurism • white slavery • workhouse
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19811-X / 069119811X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19811-8 / 9780691198118