![]() | Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris Subjects: Prostitution -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century; Police -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century; Working-class women -- France -- Paris -- Social conditions; Women -- Legal status laws etc. -- France -- Paris; Sex discrimination against; 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--an extralgal adminsitrative system involving the registration, regular medical examination, and periodic administrative detention of all working-class prostitutes. |
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