Focus Project "History of Sexuality"
t Talal Asad, who overcame binary ideas of a religious and increasingly private sphere on the one hand and a secular public (state) sphere on the other, for the modern age. The key question is the extent [...] activists and prostitutes in the political discourse on venereal diseases and prostitution. On the one hand, the local sources reveal unexpected networks between woman’s rights activists for sexual reform and [...] morality movement, amongst those who campaigned for the closure of the brothel street. On the other hand, the material demonstrated political activism of the prostitutes living in the brothel street who