Syphilis and prostitution: A regulatory couplet in nineteenth-century France

Sex, Sin and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 15-28

  Aisenberg, Andrew ^a  

^a SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203300510     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. The literature is vast. Among the works I found most helpful, see A. Corbin, Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France After 1850, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1990
2. J.-M. Berlière, La police des moeurs sous la IIIère république, Paris, Seuil, 1992
3. P. Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999
4. L. Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992
5. J. Walkowitz, Prostitution in Victorian Society: Women, Class, and State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980
6. A. M. Brandt, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985.
7. For an understanding of this conception of rationality, see A. Aisenberg, Contagion:Disease, Government and the 'Social Question' in Nineteenth-Century France, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1999, Introduction.
8. J. Donzelot, L'invention du social: Essai sur le déclin des passions politiques, Paris, Fayard, 1984.
9. This analysis of the problem of rights is developed best in G. Procacci, Gouverner la misère: La question sociale en France, 1789-1848, Paris, Seuil, 1993.
10. A. J. B. Parent-Duchâtelet, De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris, considérée sous le rapport de l'hygiène, de la morale et de l'administration, Paris, J.-B. Baillière et fils, 3rd edn, 1857, vol. I, pp. 370-1.
11. Parent-Duchâtelet, De la prostitution, vol. II, pp. 324-5.
12. Parent-Duchâtelet, De la prostitution, vol. I, p. 480.
13. See J. W. Scott, '"L'ouvrière! Mot impie sordide ". women workers in the discourse of French political economy, 1840-1860', in J. W. Scott (ed.) Gender and the Politics of History, New York, Columbia University Press, 1988, pp. 139-63.
14. Parent-Duchâtelet, De la prostitution, vol. I, p. 57.
15. Helpful works on Haussmannization include J. Gaillard, 'Assistance et urbanisme dans le Paris du Second Empire', in L. Murard and P. Zylberman, L'haleine des faubourgs: Ville, habitat et santé au xixème siècle, Fontenay-sous-Bois, Recherches, pp. 395-422