Tags: Prostitution -- Austria -- History -- 20th century. Trials Prostitution -- Austria -- History -- 20th century. Prostitution -- Government policy -- Austria -- History -- 20th century. Sexually transmitted diseases -- Austria -- History -- 20th century. Austria -- History -- This document was uploaded by our user. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish it. Report DMCA. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M.
Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance. Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy.
And after , bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.
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The ever-prescient Scott Spector, who was working alongside me, only just stopped me from returning the box. He rightly pointed out that there was no way I was getting the anti-Badeni material until the next day at the earliest, so I might as well read what I had. And so I did. By the time the documents I had actually ordered arrived late the following day, I was hooked on the topic of prostitution, and I have been researching and writing about it ever since.
