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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. Few figures provoke as much attention, and confusion, as the prostitute. She is at once the archetypal sexual deviant and the symbol of patriarchal exploitation. But in casting her in the dual roles of victim and villain, academic and popular discourse all but ignores the actual experiences of the woman at the centre of the sex trade. Focusing on the testimonies of prostitutes working in the German sex trade in the first half of the twentieth century, Victoria Harris challenges pervasive and persistent myths about the hidden, voiceless world of prostitution. Based on provocative and previously unseen source materials, Selling Sex in the Reich offers a nuanced and vibrant picture of the prostitute milieu. Chronicling the often tense relationships between the wide variety of Germans involved in the sex trade and those bent on destroying it, Harris uncovers the surprising amount of control these women…
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Selling Sex in the Reich: Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945 Hardcover - 2010
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- Title Selling Sex in the Reich: Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945
- Author Harris, Victoria
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
- Date 2010
- ISBN 9780199578573
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