“White Slave Trade” and the Protection of Girls in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1840–1940.
“White Slave Trade” and the Protection of Girls in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1840–1940.

Summary/Abstract: In Europe in the nineteenth century, at the time of the industrial revolution and the increase of the city population, prostitution became a burning social problem. According to the public opinion at the time, prostitution undermined the moral foundations of society and represented a danger not only for the moral, but also the physical health of the population. This article examines the issue of prostitution and sex trafficking of women and girls, and the position of authorities, expert-medical circles and women’s movement regarding this issue in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Serbia and Yugoslavia. In addition to daily press and periodicals, archival material from the State Archives of Serbia and the Archives of Yugoslavia was used in this work, as well as relevant professional literature.

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