Democracy and Human Rights. The Abolition of Regulated Prostitution in Germany and Italy 1918-1958

Autor: Malte König
Jazyk: English<br />Italian
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Scienza & Politica, Vol 27, Iss 53 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1590-4946
1825-9618
DOI: 10.6092/issn.1825-9618/5848
Popis: The essay explores the connections between the abolition of legalized prostitution and the processes of democratization in Germany and Italy, starting from the history of human rights and its interaction with the political system. The main sources are the parliamentary debates and the laws that brought about the closedown of brothels and the abolition of the surveillance system in Germany in 1927 and in Italy in 1958. The debates on prostitution also pose a question of equality and gender justice. In particular, the problem of the regulation of prostitution, whose efficiency has been verified by an ever growing number of researchers during the XX century, deploys factors of sanitary policy, human rights and morals, aspects of social policy and security, questioning not only the gender hierarchy, but also the social one.
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