a thoroughly researched and densely sourced account of sex work in Cisleithania (the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on this side of the Leitha River) from the mid-1880s to the end of the First World War. The specific historical details of the cultural and societal attitudes toward prostitution are fascinating in and of themselves; the many points of comparison to early twenty-first-century debates about sex work make this study particularly exciting ... Wingfield's account is lively and full of fascinating details, incidents, and case studies. Robert Deam Tobin, H-Net Skryť popis