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Love for sale : representing prostitution in imperial Russia / Colleen Lucey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucey, Colleen, author.
- Series:
- NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitutes in literature.
- Prostitutes in art.
- Russian literature--19th century--Social aspects.
- Russian literature.
- Prostitution--Social aspects--Russia.
- Prostitution.
- Prostitution--Russia--History--19th century.
- Sex in literature.
- Sex in art.
- History.
- Prostitution--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Representing prostitution in imperial Russia
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Policing Russia's public women
- Russia's Babylon: prostitution in St. Petersburg
- Safety valves of social passions": regulating commercial sex
- Tricks of the trade: elite prostitution and the art of seduction
- The dowerless bride on Russia's marriage market
- "Hyenas in bonnets": the madam and her milieu
- Commodifying domestic bliss: the kept woman in Russian fiction
- Continuity through change: sex work from the imperial period to today
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lucey, Colleen. Love for sale
- ISBN:
- 9781501758881
- 1501758888
- 9781501758874
- 150175887X
- Publisher Number:
- 40030692314
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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