Jewish Pimps, Prostitutes and Campaigners in a Transnational German and British Context, 1875-1940

德国和英国跨国背景下的犹太皮条客、妓女和活动家，1875 年至 1940 年

• 批准号: AH/T013028/1
• 负责人: Daniel Lee
• 金额: $ 36.19万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT013028%2F1
• 关键词: Jewish; Pimps; Prostitutes; Campaigners; Transnational

This research project will draw on the expertise of a project group specializing in the study of gender, antisemitism and migration to investigate the phenomenon of Jewish involvement in the sex trade. While in the late nineteenth century up until the Second World War, Jews were consistently demonized by antisemites because of their role in the trade as prostitutes, pimps and brothel owners, they have featured only marginally in recent studies of prostitution that in recent years has experienced a renewed interest. Over a period of thirty-one months, two postdoctoral researchers will explore Jews and the sex trade, 1875-1940, in British, German and transnational contexts. Largely neglected by historians of Jewish history, and the history of Antisemitism this research project will look beyond institutional frameworks that governed the everyday lives of Jewish prostitutes in the age of the great Jewish migration to expose a new understanding of international mobility in the era of modern globalization. Our research project will show that Jewish prostitutes were never merely passive objects. This study of Jewish prostitutes will place the women center stage and will unravel their agency behind moral politics, criminalization, and male fantasies. Such an approach will allow us to recast the focus away from politicians, state reformers and national anti-trafficking campaigners, to consider the Jewish women's experiences as historical actors as they navigated unfamiliar relationships with men (pimps, physicians, judges and the police) who exercised control over their bodies. Both the UK and Germany housed ports and other spatial sites that are key to analysing Jews' interaction with the sex trade. An understanding of how Jewish women navigated the gendered spaces and the metaphorical codings of Bremen, Hamburg, Portsmouth and Southampton will reveal their power of negotiation and highlight their agency.Daniel Lee (PI), Stefanie Fischer (PI), Daniel Wildmann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (German Co-I) will mentor the postdoctoral historians who will use unpublished and recently-released sources and testimonies. Our main objective is to produce a more nuanced interpretation of the ties between sex work, migration and trafficking in persons and to build a UK-German network that helps fight human trafficking. Through network meetings, training sessions, and public workshops, the research project aims to communicate its findings beyond traditional academic circles so that it will, ultimately, have an impact on law and law enforcement, and help reduce vulnerabilities for sex workers and victims of human trafficking.

这一研究项目将利用一个专门研究性别、反犹太主义和移民问题的项目组的专门知识，以调查性交易中的犹太人现象。虽然在十九世纪末直到第二次世界大战，犹太人一直被反犹太主义者妖魔化，因为他们在卖淫中扮演着妓女、皮条客和妓院老板的角色，但在最近几年重新引起关注的卖淫研究中，他们只占了很小的比例。在31个月的时间里，两名博士后研究人员将在英国、德国和跨国背景下探索1875-1940年间的犹太人和性交易。在很大程度上被犹太历史学家和反犹太主义历史学家忽视的这个研究项目将超越在犹太大移民时代统治犹太妓女日常生活的制度框架，以揭示对现代全球化时代国际流动性的新理解。我们的研究项目将表明，犹太妓女从来不只是被动的物体。这项关于犹太妓女的研究将把女性置于中心舞台，并将揭开她们在道德政治、刑事化和男性幻想背后的作用。这种方法将使我们能够重新关注政客、国家改革者和国家反人口贩运活动人士，将犹太妇女的经历视为历史参与者，因为她们与控制自己身体的男人(皮条客、医生、法官和警察)建立了陌生的关系。英国和德国都有港口和其他空间网站，这些网站是分析犹太人与性交易互动的关键。了解犹太女性如何在性别空间中穿梭，以及不来梅、汉堡、朴茨茅斯和南安普顿的隐喻编码，将揭示她们的谈判能力，并突出她们的代理能力。丹尼尔·李(PI)、斯蒂芬妮·费舍尔(PI)、丹尼尔·威尔德曼和斯蒂芬妮·舒勒-斯普林戈勒姆(德国Co-I)将指导博士后历史学家，他们将使用未发表和最近发布的来源和证词。我们的主要目标是对性工作、移民和人口贩运之间的关系做出更微妙的解释，并建立一个帮助打击人口贩运的英国-德国网络。通过网络会议、培训课程和公共研讨会，该研究项目旨在将其发现传达到传统学术界之外，以便最终对法律和执法产生影响，并帮助减少性工作者和人口贩运受害者的脆弱性。