Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Europe

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Sonja Dolinsek (Universität Paderborn, Germany) Siobhán Hearne (University of Manchester, UK)

Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Europe

Sonja Dolinsek (Universität Paderborn, Germany), Siobhán Hearne (University of Manchester, UK)

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English

Routledge
08 May 2023

European history; Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry; Gender studies: men; Sociology; Gender & the law

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. With its wide geographical focus from Italy to the USSR via Sweden, Germany, occupied Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the international stage of the United Nations, this book encourages comparative perspectives, which have the potential to question, deconstruct and re-adjust distinctions between western, eastern, northern and southern European historical experiences.

This book moves beyond exploring state-regulated prostitution, which was the dominant approach to managing commercial sex across Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. State regulation combined police surveillance, the registration of women selling sex (or suspected of doing so), and compulsory medical examinations for registered women, as well as various restrictions on personal movement and freedom. The nine chapters shift focus onto the decades after the abolition of state-regulated prostitution well into the second half of the twentieth century to examine the ruptures and continuities in state, administrative and policing practices following the end of widespread legal toleration. The varied chronology extends the parameters of existing historiography and explores how states grappled to understand, or impose control over, the commercial sex industry following the far-reaching social, economic and political upheaval of the Second World War.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

Edited by: Sonja Dolinsek (Universität Paderborn Germany), Siobhán Hearne (University of Manchester, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9781032458502
ISBN 10: 103245850X
Pages: 245
Publication Date: 08 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Prostitution in twentieth century Europe 1. Prostitution as non-labour leading to forced labour: Vagrancy and Gender in Sweden and Stockholm, 1919–1939 2. Police and prostitution in Yugoslavia: a nuanced relationship 3. Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust 4. Tensions of abolitionism during the negotiation of the 1949 ‘Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others’ 5. Prostitution in socialist Yugoslavia: from Stalinism to the Yugoslav way 6. The new face of Italian prostitution in the aftermath of the Merlin Law: forms, debate and repression 7. Selling sex under socialism: prostitution in the post-war USSR 8. ‘Cleaning up the cityscape’: managing commercial sex and city space in Cologne, 1956–1972 9. Greek trans women selling sex, spaces and mobilities, 1960s–80s

Sonja Dolinsek has worked on a doctoral project on the transnational history of anti-trafficking and the politics of prostitution after 1945 with a focus on Germany, France, the United Kingdom and USA. She works at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University. Siobhán Hearne is a historian of gender and sexuality in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. She is the author of Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (2021), as well as various articles about prostitution, venereal diseases and pornography in imperial Russian and Soviet history.