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During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the "New Morality" articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the "New Woman."Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith's work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.

Prostitution --- History --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Sex work --- European history

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The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as “pimp-prostitute” arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine to be consumed by social suffering. Dangerous Love centers a framework of love to rethink sex workers’ intimate relationships as commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of oppression. Combining epidemiological research and ethnographic fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico, Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen examines how individuals try to find love and meaning in lives marked by structural violence, social marginalization, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Linking the political economy of inequalities along the border with emotional lived experience, this book explores how intimate relationships become dangerous safe havens that fundamentally shape both partners’ well-being. Through these stories, we are urged to reimagine the socially transformative power of love to carve new pathways to health equity.

Prostitutes --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Social conditions. --- Call girls --- Female prostitutes --- Girls, Call --- Harlots --- Hookers (Prostitutes) --- Hustlers (Prostitutes) --- Street prostitutes --- Streetwalkers --- Strumpets --- Tarts (Prostitutes) --- Trollops (Prostitutes) --- Whores (Prostitutes) --- Women prostitutes --- Sex workers --- sex work; drug use; intamicy; Mexico

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Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such as the Women Police Patrols, the Liverpool House of Help and the local branch of the Catholic Women's League. It argues that though these organizations helped many lost and stranded women, their work also enacted a form of moral surveillance on the streets. As such, the book uncovers how important twentieth-century anxieties about changing sexual practices, female immigration, white slavery and the rise of new consumer cultures played out at local level and with what consequences for women in Liverpool. The book also brings together a wide range of local and national sources to show that when female-run, local organizations concerned about immorality went into decline in the post-war years, it was because official institutions and local law enforcement had increasingly taken up their cause. Consequently, Save the Womanhood argues that young, working-class women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure continued to arouse moral anxiety even as the city's social purists battled to maintain their influence.

Women --- Prostitution --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- History --- Social conditions. --- Crimes against --- Prevention --- Sex work --- Liverpool (England) --- Moral conditions --- City and Borough of Liverpool (England) --- Liverpool (Merseyside)

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Welche Machtlogiken wirken bei der Interpretation von Prostitution als Problem individueller moralischer Führung einerseits und als gesamtgesellschaftliches, politisches Problem andererseits? Die Autorin verbindet zwei Schlüsselkonzepte aktueller politischer und feministischer Theorie - Intersektionalität und Gouvernementalität - mit der historischen Analyse der Problematisierung von Prostitution und ihren Regierungsweisen Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie zeigt empirisch auf, dass verschiedene gesellschaftliche Gruppen jeweils spezifisch moralisch regiert wurden und plädiert für ein politisches und prozessorientiertes Verständnis von Intersektionalität, so dass differenzierte Mechanismen der Machtausübung erfassbar werden. Which power logics work in the interpretation of prostitution as a problem of individual moral leadership on the one hand and as a political problem for society as a whole on the other? The author combines two key concepts of current political and feminist theory - intersectionality and governmentality - with the historical analysis of the problematization of prostitution and its modes of government at the beginning of the 20th century. It empirically shows that different social groups were each specifically morally governed and argues for a political and process-oriented understanding of intersectionality, so that differentiated mechanisms of the exercise of power can be grasped.

Prostitution --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Political aspects --- History --- Gouvernementalität --- governmentality --- intersectionality --- Intersektionalität --- prostitution --- Intersektionalität --- Gouvernementalität

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Spesso nel dibattito pubblico italiano prostituzione e lavoro sessuale vengono affrontati in modo riduttivo, conflittuale o sensazionalistico, attraverso il ricorso a stereotipi o proclami ideologici, sia nel dibattito politico che in quello mediatico, talvolta anche nei movimenti sociali, femminismi compresi. La questione mette in gioco molteplici dimensioni che interrogano i corpi, le identità, il potere, così come le leggi, i diritti e le condizioni materiali di vita delle persone, che hanno bisogno di letture complesse e rigorose, di analisi che siano in grado di rendere visibili nello spazio pubblico la diversità delle esperienze e delle identità di chi vive di lavoro sessuale, le connessioni tra mercati del sesso e migrazioni, l’impatto delle politiche pubbliche, ecc. Con il loro taglio interdisciplinare, e attraverso un linguaggio scientificamente fondato ma al contempo accessibile, i diversi capitoli di questo volume sono una bussola per capire i rischi e le potenzialità delle politiche, degli interventi sociali e dei dibattiti esistenti in Italia, ma anche quelli prodotti in contesti internazionali. Mettendo al centro i diritti delle persone, a favore della regolamentazione e contro il proibizionismo.

Sociology & Anthropology --- prostituzione --- lavoro sessuale --- dibattito politico --- identità --- corpi --- potere --- leggi --- diritti --- mercati del sesso --- prostitution --- travail du sexe --- débat politique --- identité --- corps --- pouvoir --- lois --- droits --- marchés du sexe --- sex work --- political debate --- identity --- bodies --- power --- laws --- rights --- sex markets