How Long to Read The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

How Long Does it Take to Read The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria by Nancy M. Wingfield

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M. Wingfield seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-siècle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency to the women who participated in commercial sex, illuminate their quotidian experiences, and to place these women, some of whom made a rational economic decision to sell their bodies, in the larger social context of late imperial Austria. Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance. Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy. And after 1918, bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.

How long is The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria?

The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria by Nancy M. Wingfield is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria aloud.

What Reading Level is The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria?

The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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