Love for sale : representing prostitution in imperial Russia

Author(s)

• Lucey, Colleen

Bibliographic Information

Love for sale : representing prostitution in imperial Russia

Colleen Lucey

（NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies）

Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

• NCID: BC16223013
• ISBN:
  • 9781501758867
• LCCN: 2020048401
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 253 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NX652.P74
  • DC23 : 700.4538
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Prostitutes in literature
  • LCSH : Prostitutes in art
  • LCSH : Russian literature -- 19th century -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Prostitution -- Social aspects -- Russia
  • LCSH : Prostitution -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Sex in literature
  • LCSH : Sex in art
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB29768450