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Discourse and the power of symbols : representation and regulation of prostitution in France, 1831-1975

Creator:

Sweatman, Jennifer L.

Abstract:

This is a study of the representations of prostitutes and prostitution produced within a particular historical framework-regulationism. Drawing support from public health movements, campaigns against depopulation and degeneration and protest from feminists and socialists, the "French system" of regulation of prostitution occupied center stage in social debates from the mid-nineteenth...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis