Policing prostitution : regulating the lower classes in late imperial Russia / Siobhán Hearne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearne, Siobhán, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Law and legislation--Russia--History--19th century.

Prostitution.

Prostitution--Russia--History--19th century.

Police--Russia--History--19th century.

Police.

Russia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical police were in charge of compiling information about registered prostitutes and ensuring that they followed the strict rules prescribed by the imperial state governing their visibility and behaviour. The vast majority of women who sold sex hailed from the lower classes, as did their managers and clients. This study examines how regulation was implemented, experienced, and resisted amid rapid urbanization, industrialization, and modernization around the turn of the twentieth century. Each chapter examines the lives and challenges of different groups who engaged with the world of prostitution, including women who sold sex, the men who paid for it, mediators, the police, and wider urban communities.

Contents:

Cover

Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Archival

Archival References

Notes on the Text

Dates

Translations/Transliterations

Place Names

Introduction

Society in Flux

The Paternalistic Empire

Who Sold Sex in Late Imperial Russia?

Lower-Class Voices

Chapter 1: Selling Sex

Prostitutes as Urban Workers

Prostitutes as Seasonal Workers

Registered Women on the Move

Migrant (Sex) Workers in the City

Prostitutes as 'Promiscuous' Women

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Paying for Sex

Civilian Clients

Exposing Unregistered Prostitutes

Service Provider and Customer

Infectious Male Bodies

Military Clients

Chapter 3: Managing Commercial Sex

Managers and Registered Women

Guardians of Public Health

Benevolent Employers

Exploiters

Managers and the Police

Watchdogs

Moneymakers

Vulnerable Businesswomen

Invisible Managers

Chapter 4: Policing Commercial Sex

Local Governance

Staff Satisfaction

Enforcement

Separation

Medical Examinations

Policing in Wartime

Russo-Japanese War

First World War

Chapter 5: Living with Commercial Sex

Educated Observers and the Brothel

Containment within the State-Licensed Brothel

Concealment through Zoning and Spatial Segregation

Disgruntled Landlords

Resisting Spatial Segregation

Regulation in Practice

The End of Russian Regulation

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Newspapers and Periodicals

Published Primary Sources

Online Sources

Secondary Literature

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-257496-5

0-19-187451-5

0-19-257495-7

OCLC:

1244626558