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MORAVURI SOCIALE ÎN MEDIUL URBAN: CLIENŢII CASELOR DE TOLERANŢĂ DIN CRAIOVA (1863-1930)
Social Mores in Urban Space: the Brothels Clients in Craiova (1863-1930)

Author(s): Șerban Pătrașcu
Subject(s): Social history
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Urban Romania; 19th-20th Centuries; brothel; social paysage;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with the social paysage of prostitution as introduction in social mores from Romanian urban space of Craiova from almost a century. Under the influence caused by igienism debates, the medicalization of the official discourse on prostitution, a more attention of public behaviours and the change of the body representations and education in European society, brothels became subject of public debates. Customers brothels become themselves a universe that moves between normal and deviant behavior, between what is acceptable and what is hidden. The study of such clients presents lessons in the human condition and invites at a large comprehension of society, far to respect its own interdictions.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: XIII
  • Page Range: 172-182
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian
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