Policing Prostitution - Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia

Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire, investigating the lives of women who sold sex, the men who paid for it, mediators, the police, and wider urban communities.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Selling Sex


• 2: Paying for Sex


• 3: Managing Commercial Sex


• 4: Policing Commercial Sex


• 5: Living with Commercial Sex


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Siobhán Hearne is a historian of gender and sexuality in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. She received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017, and has since completed postdoctoral research in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. Her research has appeared in the journals Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Social History, Revolutionary Russia and The Journal of Social History(forthcoming).

Summary

Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire, investigating the lives of women who sold sex, the men who paid for it, mediators, the police, and wider urban communities.

Additional text

Hearne shows in illuminating detail how urban residents, local administrators, and even the police collaborated in undermining the authority of a system that was by definition doomed to fail.

Product details

• Authors: Hearne , Siobhan Hearne, Siobhán Hearne, Siobhan (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Hearne
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780198837916
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883791-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Medical Sociology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial