Sikorska-Kulesza, Jolanta <br/><br/>
Tolerated Evil : Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century 

 - Bern  Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group  2020 
 - 1 electronic resource (356 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought to maintain control over prostitution and the health of women who offered paid sexual services. The author uses data collected by the police and medical authorities supervising legal and illegal prostitution to provide a demographic and sociological picture of the big-city and small-town market of sexual commerce. It was only in the early twentieth century when prostitution became an important subject of the Polish public debate, a process which is described in the book against the backdrop of the major issues and fears of the epoch. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>b16983 9783631822388 9783631822395 9783631822401 9783631815847 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3726/b16983  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Century Evil Kingdom Kulesza Nineteenth Poland Prostitution regimentation of prostitution sexual education Sikorska social history Tolerated venereal diseases women trafficking women`s history