Автобиографичното в признанията на проститутките пред полицията – етнографски и социално-икономически експликации (на базата на полицейските архиви в
The autobiographical issues in the examinations of prostitutes by the Police – ethno and socio-economic explications (based on the police archives 192

Summary/Abstract: The report presents the general "sounding", the dominating tone in light women confessions before the police. The "sounding", the tone of these confessions is predominantly autobiographical. On the basis of all these autobiographical elements from the confessions as well as on the basis of the photos attached to the police files, the authors attempt to form a complex typology (ethno-psychological and socio-economic) of women practising the "most ancient job" in the Bulgarian Kingdom between the two world wars. The researched police statements do not only show the general characteristics of authorized prostitutes but they also reveal their many-sided individuality which is mediocre at times while at others more high-minded and claiming modernity and progressiveness going ahead of the time and the epoch. This many-sidedness can not be shown within the limits of a single report, but the authors have tried to "garnish" the arid typologization with some interesting, specific peculiarities in the police reports of the target group presented in the report.

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