{"product_id":"love-for-sale-representing-prostitution-in-imperial-russia-hardback-9781501758867","title":"Love for Sale; Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia (Hardback) 9781501758867","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove for Sale\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRepresenting Prostitution in Imperial Russia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eColleen Lucey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501758867\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 30 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 30 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucey's interdisciplinary approach to the subject offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the key characterizations and tropes associated with fictional sex workers, contextualizing her close readings of literature and art within the lived realities for individuals in the sex industry during that time.\u003c\/p\u003e (EuropeNow) \u003cp\u003eLucey adds a fresh, literary perspective on well-explored questions of female prostitution, promiscuity, and domestic oppression in the period between 1843 and 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e (Russian Review) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to scholarly discussions about sex work, representations of women in the literary and visual arts, and women's writing, among others. It is rigorously interdisciplinary and offers important insights into the relationship between nineteenth-century visual, literary, and professional cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e (Revolutionary Russia) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential book for historians, literary scholars, and students working on themes related to gender and sexuality. Conceptually ambitious, elegantly written, and sensitive to the reverberations of the topic in the present day, Lucey's impressive work deserves the widest possible audience.\u003c\/p\u003e (Modern Language Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the first study to examine the ubiquity of commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the nineteenth century through the fin de siècle.\u003c\/b\u003e Colleen Lucey offers a compelling account of how the figure of the sex worker captivated the public's imagination through depictions in fiction and fine art, bringing to light how imperial Russians grappled with the issue of sexual commerce. Studying a wide range of media—from little-known engravings that circulated in newspapers to works of canonical fiction—Lucey shows how writers and artists used the topic of prostitution both to comment on women's shifting social roles at the end of tsarist rule and to express anxieties about the incursion of capitalist transactions in relations of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach of the book's chapters focus on a type of commercial sex, looking at how the street walker, brothel worker, demimondaine, kept woman, impoverished bride, and madam traded in sex as a means to acquire capital. Lucey argues that prostitution became a focal point for imperial Russians because it signaled both the promises of modernity and the anxieties associated with Westernization. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e integrates historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist theory and conveys how nineteenth-century beliefs about the \"fallen woman\" drew from medical, judicial, and religious discourse on female sexuality. Lucey invites readers to draw a connection between rhetoric of the nineteenth century and today's debate on sex workers' rights, highlighting recent controversies concerning Russian sex workers to show how imperial discourse is recycled in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Policing Russia's Public Women\u003cbr\u003e 1. Russia's Babylon: Prostitution in St. Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Safety Valves of Social Passions\": Regulating Commercial Sex\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tricks of the Trade: Elite Prostitution and the Art of Seduction\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Dowerless Bride on Russia's Marriage Market\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Hyenas in Bonnets\": The Madam and Her Milieu\u003cbr\u003e 6. Commodifying Domestic Bliss: The Kept Woman in Russian Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Continuity through Change—Sex Work from the Imperial Period to Today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607805686040,"sku":"9781501758867","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-for-sale-representing-prostitution-in-imperial-russia-hardback-9781501758867","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}