Tolerated Evil: Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9783631815847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 356 str.

Jan Burzynski; Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza

Spis treści

The state versus prostitution - police and medical supervision over prostitution - legal prostitution - prostitution in the eyes of the society - abolitionism vs. regimentationism - the perceived origins of prostitution - aid for prostitutes and the struggle for a new morality.

O autorze

Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza is a professor at the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw. She specialises in research on the social history of the Kingdom of Poland and the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the nineteenth century (the history and transformations of the nobility, memory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the social role of photography) and critical editing of sources.