Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Moral Liberals and the Monstrosities of State Medicine (1869-1880s)
2. Purity Crusaders and the Threat of Degeneracy (1883-1900s)
3. Maternal Feminists: From Social Mothers to New Women (1880s-1930s)
4. Global Doldrums and National Vestiges (1930s-1970s)
5. Radical Feminists and Raging Wounds (1970s-1990s)
6. Social Regulators: Shifting the Burden (2000s-today)
7. Survivors: Victimhood as Expertise (2000s-today)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

This book traces the fight to end prostitution from 1869 to the present day through a historical study of its emotional communities.

About the Author

Michele Renée Greer is Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at Kyonggi University, South Korea, and is also affiliated with the Centre of Sociological and Political Research of Paris, France.

Reviews

No one stays indifferent to prostitution: it inexorably provokes feelings of fear, outrage, pity, and sometimes fascination. Michele Greer sheds new light on the lengthy debate about prostitution's very nature by focusing on the emotions it arouses among those who fight for the abolition of prostitution or for prostitutes' emancipation. By portraying the emotional communities that mobilise against prostitutes' suffering and oppression, her book deepens our knowledge on how feelings such as anxiety, rage, outrage, guilt or even desire irrigate and shape political convictions and commitments.
*Lilian Mathieu, Senior Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre Max Weber, ENS de Lyon), France*