Colleen Lucey is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona.

Lucey's interdisciplinary approach to the subject offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the key characterizations and tropes associated with fictional sex workers, contextualizing her close readings of literature and art within the lived realities for individuals in the sex industry during that time.(EuropeNow) Lucey adds a fresh, literary perspective on well-explored questions of female prostitution, promiscuity, and domestic oppression in the period between 1843 and 1905.(Russian Review) Love for Sale contributes to scholarly discussions about sex work, representations of women in the literary and visual arts, and women's writing, among others. It is rigorously interdisciplinary and offers important insights into the relationship between nineteenth-century visual, literary, and professional cultures.(Revolutionary Russia) Love for Sale is an essential book for historians, literary scholars, and students working on themes related to gender and sexuality. Conceptually ambitious, elegantly written, and sensitive to the reverberations of the topic in the present day, Lucey's impressive work deserves the widest possible audience.(Modern Language Review)

• Introduction: Policing Russia's Public Women1. Russia's Babylon: Prostitution in St. Petersburg2. "Safety Valves of Social Passions": Regulating Commercial Sex3. Tricks of the Trade: Elite Prostitution and the Art of Seduction4. The Dowerless Bride on Russia's Marriage Market5. "Hyenas in Bonnets": The Madam and Her Milieu6. Commodifying Domestic Bliss: The Kept Woman in Russian FictionConclusion: Continuity through Change—Sex Work from the Imperial Period to Today

Colleen Lucey is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona.

Lucey's interdisciplinary approach to the subject offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the key characterizations and tropes associated with fictional sex workers, contextualizing her close readings of literature and art within the lived realities for individuals in the sex industry during that time.(EuropeNow) Lucey adds a fresh, literary perspective on well-explored questions of female prostitution, promiscuity, and domestic oppression in the period between 1843 and 1905.(Russian Review) Love for Sale contributes to scholarly discussions about sex work, representations of women in the literary and visual arts, and women's writing, among others. It is rigorously interdisciplinary and offers important insights into the relationship between nineteenth-century visual, literary, and professional cultures.(Revolutionary Russia) Love for Sale is an essential book for historians, literary scholars, and students working on themes related to gender and sexuality. Conceptually ambitious, elegantly written, and sensitive to the reverberations of the topic in the present day, Lucey's impressive work deserves the widest possible audience.(Modern Language Review)

• Introduction: Policing Russia's Public Women1. Russia's Babylon: Prostitution in St. Petersburg2. "Safety Valves of Social Passions": Regulating Commercial Sex3. Tricks of the Trade: Elite Prostitution and the Art of Seduction4. The Dowerless Bride on Russia's Marriage Market5. "Hyenas in Bonnets": The Madam and Her Milieu6. Commodifying Domestic Bliss: The Kept Woman in Russian FictionConclusion: Continuity through Change—Sex Work from the Imperial Period to Today

Colleen Lucey is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona.

Lucey's interdisciplinary approach to the subject offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the key characterizations and tropes associated with fictional sex workers, contextualizing her close readings of literature and art within the lived realities for individuals in the sex industry during that time.(EuropeNow) Lucey adds a fresh, literary perspective on well-explored questions of female prostitution, promiscuity, and domestic oppression in the period between 1843 and 1905.(Russian Review) Love for Sale contributes to scholarly discussions about sex work, representations of women in the literary and visual arts, and women's writing, among others. It is rigorously interdisciplinary and offers important insights into the relationship between nineteenth-century visual, literary, and professional cultures.(Revolutionary Russia) Love for Sale is an essential book for historians, literary scholars, and students working on themes related to gender and sexuality. Conceptually ambitious, elegantly written, and sensitive to the reverberations of the topic in the present day, Lucey's impressive work deserves the widest possible audience.(Modern Language Review)

• Introduction: Policing Russia's Public Women1. Russia's Babylon: Prostitution in St. Petersburg2. "Safety Valves of Social Passions": Regulating Commercial Sex3. Tricks of the Trade: Elite Prostitution and the Art of Seduction4. The Dowerless Bride on Russia's Marriage Market5. "Hyenas in Bonnets": The Madam and Her Milieu6. Commodifying Domestic Bliss: The Kept Woman in Russian FictionConclusion: Continuity through Change—Sex Work from the Imperial Period to Today