Prostitution Bibliography

[Eliot Borenstein]

Dear Joe, and others who might be interested,

Here's a mini-bibliography on the subject:

Bernstein, Frances L.“Prostitutes and Proletarians: The Labor Clinic as 
Revolutionary Laboratory in the 1920s,” in The Human Tradition in 
Modern Russia, ed. William Husband (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 
2000). 113-128.

Bernstein, Laurie.  Sonia's Daughters. Prostitutes and their Regulation 
in Imperial Russia.   Berkeley,  UC Press: 1995.

Borenstein, Eliot. Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in 
Russian Fiction, 1917-1929. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

---.  "Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of 
Nationalism after Peterstroika".  Andrea Lanoux (ed.) Gender and 
National Identity in Russian Culture (forthcoming).

Cassiday, Julie A. and Leyla Rouhi. “From Nevskii Prospekt to Zoia’s 
Apartment: Trials of the Russian Procuress.” Russian Review 58.3 (July 
1999): 413-431.

Clark, Katerina. “Not for Sale: The Russian/Soviet Intelligentsia, 
Prostitution, and the Paradox of Internal Colonization.” Gregory 
Freidin. Russian Culture in Transition. Stanford: Stanford Slavic 
Studies Volume 7: 189-205.

Engel, Barbara Alpern. Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, 
and Family in Russia, 1861-1914. Cambridge, England: Cambridge 
University Press. 1994.

--- “St. Petersburg Prostitutes in the Late Nineteenth Century: A 
Personal and Social Profile.” Russian Review 48.1 (January 1989): 21-44.

Goscilo, Helena. Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood During and After 
Glasnost. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Healey, Dan. “Masculine Purity and ‘Gentlemen’s Mischief’: Sexual 
Exchange and Prostitution between Russian Men, 1861-1941.” Slavic 
Review 60.2 (Summer 2001): 233-265.

Lebina, N. B. and M. V. Shkarovskii. Prostitutisiia v Peterburge. 
Moscow: Progress-Akademiia, 1994.

Maksimovich, Edvard. Prostitutki Moskvy. Moscow: Iustitsiia-M, 1997.

Matich, Olga. “A Typology of Fallen Women in Nineteenth Century Russian 
Literature.” Paul Debreczeny (ed.). American Contributions to the Ninth 
International Congress of Slavists. Vol. II: Literature, Politics, 
History. Columbus: Slavica, 1983. 325-343.

Sanjian, Andrea Stevenson. “Prostitution, the Press, and 
Agenda-Building in the Soviet Policy Process.” Anthony Jones, Walter D. 
Connor, David E. Powell (eds.) Soviet Social Problems. Boulder : 
Westview Press, 1991. 270-95.

Siegel, George.  “The Fallen Woman in Nineteenth Century Literature.”  
Harvard Slavic Studies 5 (1970): 81-107.

Stites, Richard. “Prostitute and Society in Pre-Revolutionary Russia.” 
Jahrbu∂cher für Geschichte Osteuropas 31.3 (1983): 348-364.

---. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism and 
Bolshevism (1860-1930). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Waters, Elizabeth. “Prostitution.” Jim Riordan (ed.). Soviet Social 
Reality in the Mirror of Glasnost. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. 
133-54.

---. “Victim or Villain: Prostitution in Post-Revolutionary Russia.” 
Ed. Linda Edmonton. Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union. 
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

Wood, Elizabeth. “Prostitution Unbound: Representations of Sexual and 
Political Anxieties in Post-Revolutionary Russia.” Sexuality and the 
Body in Russian Culture, 1993.

Zholkovsky, Alexander.   "Topos prostitutsii."  A. K. Zholkovskii and 
M. B. Iampol’skii.  Babel'/Babel.  Moscow:  Carte Blanche, 1994.  
317-368.


Eliot Borenstein,  Chair
Dept. of Russian & Slavic Studies
New York University
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