Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501758881-fm
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Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0005
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"The Dowerless Bride on Russia’s Marriage Market","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter turns to the image of the dowerless bride. Here, the dowerless bride operated as proof that the country faced a marriage crisis. A woman's dowry (or lack thereof) came to signify the mercantile self-interest that threatened the sanctity of marriage. Lacking the right to marital choice, impoverished women found themselves bartered by parents on the bridal market or coerced into brothel service by madams. Comparing genre paintings by artists like Nikolai Shilder with contemporary literary works by Aleksandr Ostrovsky and Avdotia Panaeva, the chapter contends that artistic production likened unequal marital unions to a new kind of social prostitution driven by market capitalism.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122250616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0008
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter considers attitudes toward sex work in modern-day Russia. While sex workers and their allies in today's Russia have argued for the legalization of the venal economy on various judicial grounds, politicians remain deeply wedded to the belief that prostitution is a social vice and should be policed as such. Informing these retrograde discussions of sexual labor is a firm belief, made recalcitrant in the post-Soviet era, that prostitution represented the nation's social and political decline. The reconstitution of erotic life in contemporary Russia mirrors imperial era panics about social degeneracy that connected prostitution with infection and disease. Yet the topic of prostitution likewise offered Russia's cultural elite a means to discuss women's sexual and economic emancipation. Whether romanticized or demonized, commercial sex appeared as a contested means for women's emancipation, as these women found commodification a means not only for survival but for social and economic advancement.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126591203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0007
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"Commodifying Domestic Bliss","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes the kept woman (soderzhanka), who occupied the most fluid position in imperial Russia and thus appears as a highly complex figure in literature and art of the period. The chapter looks at the ambiguity of the kept woman's status as representative of new changes in women's position at the turn of the century. Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia, and Tolstoy feature kept women at various stages of spiritual agony. These writers question to what degree economic independence is predicated on sexual autonomy, and they depict the kept woman because of her social status as an outcast. Operating within a parallel polis and mirroring aspects of marital monogamy while possessing none of the legal rights of matrimony, the kept woman came to symbolize the promise of extramarital relations and the threat venal love posed to the traditional family unit.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128325797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0002
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"Russia’s Babylon","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how writers allegorically connected the city of St. Petersburg to the urban, registered prostitute. Built to resemble the capitals of western Europe, St. Petersburg looked and felt distinctly alien in the Russian landscape. Peter the Great's “Window to Europe” functioned symbolically as a passageway through which vice — and particularly prostitution — entered Russia. Cultural production turned to the image of the “fallen woman” (padshaia zhenshchina) to amplify the city's status as “fallen” in the eyes of God and the nation. But sexual commerce on the city streets, in particular Nevsky Prospect, and in the numerous cafés and taverns also offered St. Petersburg citizens a chance for adventure and sexual excitement. Examining the body of literature on prostitution in St. Petersburg shows how visual and print culture of the period mapped the duality of the city onto the prostitute's physical body and spiritual state.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131739448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0004
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"Tricks of the Trade","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter moves to the image of the elite prostitute, the demimondaine (dama polusveta). Unlike her corollary working in the brothel, the demimondaine freely moved about the city space and blended in with women of the cultural elite. A lady “between worlds,” the demimondaine occupied a precarious position in imperial Russia. More selective than a brothel worker and unlike the kept woman who settled with one lover, the demimondaine confused sexual and social boundaries by appropriating the behaviors, pastimes, and clothing of the elite. The source texts for the chapter include the numerous representations of elite prostitutes in print by the day's leading lithographers as well as depictions in famous paintings by Ilia Repin (A Parisian Café, 1875) and Ivan Kramskoi (Unknown Woman, 1883). These works codified the new behaviors of demimondaines as part of an emerging leisure culture modeled on European trends.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131693363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501758881-001
{"title":"Illustrations","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501758881-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758881-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134150822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0003
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"“Safety Valves of Social Passions”","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines depictions of urban prostitution from the perspective of medical, judicial, and sociological discourses. Russian writers, including Vsevolod Garshin, Leo Tolstoy, and Leonid Andreev drew upon stories from actual sex workers to debunk the theories of prominent sociologists and criminologists like Cesare Lombroso who argued that prostitution was necessary to preserve the social order. Yet these Russian writers, while sympathetic to the registered prostitute, nevertheless engaged in moments of voyeurism and fetishization. Unable to determine whether the prostitute's body should evoke empathy or titillation, their texts vacillate between eroticism and revulsion. This chapter thus analyzes four texts debated in leading journals, lecture halls, and salons throughout Russia. Each work represents a shift in the national narrative on femininity, the commodification of sex, and the discussion of women's rights.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"332 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115975931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0006
Colleen Lucey
{"title":"“Hyenas in Bonnets”","authors":"Colleen Lucey","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758867.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter contends that the figure of the procuress and madam garnered universal hatred not only among writers but also doctors, sociologists, and abolitionists, who drew upon anti-Semitic rhetoric and fears of “white slavery” to galvanize the public against the go-between and her profession. She was imagined to be a woman more dangerous than the demimondaine, a force harder to contain than the brothel worker, and a villain fiercer than the gold-digging coquette. Indeed, the antagonism toward madams and procuresses was far stronger than that toward other women who defied traditional norms of motherhood. As the chapter demonstrates, at the heart of condemnations of Russia's “hyenas in bonnets” was a deep distrust of women entrepreneurs who acquired social and financial capital. The procuress became a repository for male frustration at women who managed, despite their reproductive irrelevance, to gain a cultural relevancy in their roles as go-betweens.","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117214862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Love for SalePub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501758881-011
{"title":"Conclusion: Contin uity through Change—Sex Work from the Imperial Period to Today","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501758881-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758881-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195329,"journal":{"name":"Love for Sale","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116168232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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