Author: Nancy Wingfield, Department of History, Northern Illinois University - ResearchGate

Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	List of Maps and Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Abbreviations
	Note on Place Names
	Introduction (p. 1)
		Locating and Controlling "the Prostitute"(p. 3)
		Regulation in Austria (p. 6)
		Panics over Prostitution (p. 10)
		The Sources (p. 14)
		Notes (p. 16)
	1 The Riehl Trial (p. 17)
		Regulating Prostitution in Vienna (p. 20)
		Emil Bader's Investigative Journalism (p. 21)
		The Trial (p. 23)
		Brothel Drama: Representations of the Trial (p. 34)
		More Brothel Scandals (p. 40)
		Conclusion (p. 44)
		Notes (p. 47)
	2 Reforming Prostitution in Post-Riehl Vienna (p. 47)
		The Police Response to the Riehl Scandal (p. 49)
		The Lower Austrian "Prostitution Commission" (p. 58)
		Policing Brothels in Post-Riehl Vienna (p. 64)
		Independent Prostitutes Also Demand Their Rights (p. 70)
		The Austrian Society for Combating Venereal Diseases and the Regulation of Prostitution (p. 70)
		The Government's Slow Progress toward Reform (p. 72)
		Conclusion (p. 77)
		Notes (p. 79)
	3 Peripheries: Regulating Prostitution in the Provinces (p. 79)
		Regulations in Provincial Capitals (p. 82)
		Prostitution in Middle-Sized and Smaller Municipalities (p. 93)
		Prostitution in Industrial Regions (p. 97)
		Spas and Summer Resorts (p. 99)
		Soldiers, Sailors, and Venal Sex (p. 100)
		Prostitution in the Countryside (p. 106)
		Conclusion (p. 107)
		Notes (p. 109)
	4 Brothel Life: Tolerated Prostitutes, their Clients, the Madams, and the Vice Police (p. 110)
		Who Registered with the Police? (p. 111)
		Portrait of a Regulated Prostitute (p. 113)
		Prostitutes on the Move (p. 122)
		Brothel Wars (p. 125)
		The Brothel as a Criminal Space (p. 132)
		Conclusion (p. 135)
		Notes (p. 136)
	5 Clandestine Prostitutes: Women of the Streets, their Pimps, the Vice Police, and the Public (p. 137)
		Constructing the Clandestine Prostitute (p. 138)
		Pimps (p. 143)
		Sites of Clandestine Prostitution in Vienna and Prague (p. 145)
		Clandestine Prostitution in Karlsbad (p. 155)
		From Regulated Prostitute to Clandestine Prostitute and Pimp (p. 156)
		Cheap Alcohol and Commercial Sex (p. 158)
		Denouncing Clandestine Prostitutes (p. 162)
		Prostitute Murder in the Imperial Capital (p. 164)
		Conclusion (p. 170)
		Notes (p. 170)
	6 The Trafficking Panic in Late Imperial Austria (p. 171)
		Jews, Trafficking, and International Panic (p. 172)
		Kuppelei and Mädchenhandel (p. 178)
		The Rhetoric of Trafficking (p. 181)
		Wolf Goldenberg, Jewish Trafficker (p. 183)
		Migration and Panic in Late Imperial Austria (p. 187)
		Czernowitz and Trieste: Trafficking Centers (p. 190)
		Traffickers Take a Cure in Karlsbad (p. 194)
		Governmental Efforts to Combat Trafficking (p. 196)
		Trieste's Voluntary Organizations to Combat Traffiking (p. 202)
		Victims, Willing Participants or Both? (p. 204)
		Conclusion (p. 207)
		Notes (p. 207)
	7 Morals and Morale during the Great War (p. 209)
		The Moral Landscape of the Home Front (p. 211)
		The Military's Campaign against Prostitution and Venereal Disease (p.213 )
		The Imperial Capital during Wartime: Morals and Morale (p. 220)
		Prostitutes and Soldiers Elsewhere on the Home Front (p. 223)
		Prostitution in Wartime Czernowitz (p. 229)
		Denunciation, Social Decay, and Moral Turpitude (p. 234)
		Klotilde Baran: Who Is a Prostitute? (p. 238)
		Conclusion (p. 241)
		Notes (p. 241)
	Epilogue (p. 245)
		Prostitution and the Military (p. 248)
		Prostitution and Venereal Disease (p. 250)
		Interwar Panics? Jews, Prostitution, Race, and Trafficking (p. 253)
		Notes (p. 256)
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Description: »This book encompasses the world of prostitution in late imperial Austria. It addresses female agency and experience, contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls and women, and police surveillance. Prostitution is analyzed at three different, but interlinked levels: subjectivity, society, and state. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, in contrast to much of the historical literature, it seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-siècle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency to the women who participated in various kinds of commercial sex, illuminate their everyday experiences, and place these women, some of whom made the reasoned economic decision to sell their bodies, in a larger social context. It investigates their interactions with the police and other supervisory agents, as well as with other inhabitants of their world, rather than focusing on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance from the top down. Many Austrian prostitutes came from artisan and working-class, often impoverished backgrounds. They faced a complicated array of constraints that shaped the environment in which they made decisions, including lack of other economic opportunities, of education, of legal equality with men as well as legal dependence on their fathers and husbands. Despite entrenched beliefs about female sexuality and the "fallen" woman, prostitution, clandestine or regulated, was a viable choice for some women of limited economic circumstances when faced with the alternatives: low-paid, often dangerous employment in a factory, in a night café or inn, or as a servant.« (Source: Oxford University Press)

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