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Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris
By (Author) Jill Harsin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th April 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
Ethical issues and debates
306.74094436
Hardback
448
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most women by sacrificing that of only a few. Jill Harsin examines the methods by which the police of Paris resolved the contradictions of this situation--a