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Winner of the Women's History Network Book Prize 2011
Highly Commended, Longman-History Today Book of the Year Awards 2010
Selling Sex in the Reich
Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945
Victoria Harris
232 pages
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1 black and white halftone, 3 maps, and 6 graphs
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957857-3
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Hardback
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25 March 2010
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- Focuses on the voices and experiences of the prostitutes themselves
- Develops a nuanced picture of their backgrounds, attitudes, and reasons for entering the trade
- Broadens out to look at the broad range of public responses to prostitution over the period, from law enforcement agencies to social workers and doctors
- Identifies a remarkable consistency in the development of public attitudes to prostitution, from Wilhelmine Germany, through the Weimar years and into the Third Reich
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 scientifically categorize them as a group.
Prostitution can help recast our understanding of sexuality and ethics, teaching us much about how German society defined itself through its definition of who did not belong within it. In addition, common conceptions of the relationship between the type of government in power and official attitudes towards sexuality are challenged. For, as Harris shows, the prevalent desire to control citizens' sexuality transcended traditional left-right divides throughout this period and intensified with economic and political modernization, producing surprising continuities across the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and
Nazi eras.Readership: All those interested in the social and political history of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, under imperial, Weimar, and Nazi regimes
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Victoria Harris, Research Fellow, King's College, University of Cambridge
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"Harris' eye-opening and thought-provoking analysis of the history of prostitution in German society contributes substantially to our understanding of continuities across periods and to a more precise characterisation of the prostitutes' working environment." - Ulrike Zitzlsperger, Times Higher Education "An engaging, readable study...captivating, well-researched... This book should be read by everyone with an interest in modern German social history, gender and womens history, the history of sexuality, and even labour and urban history." - Julia Sneeringer, German History "An interesting and instructive approach to German history in the first half of the 20th century ... a well-researched study that
raises many interesting issues." - Jeremy Black, History Today "engaging ... contributes to the historiography of gender and sexuality by throwing light on the experience of women working as prostitutes." - Lutz Sauerteig, American Historical Review
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Prologue
Introduction: Rescuing the Fallen Woman
1: The Prostitute Experience
2: The Prostitute Milieu
3: The Prostitute and Society
4: The Prostitute and the State
Conclusion: Towards an understanding of the prostitute experience
Bibliography
Index
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