The burgher and the whore
Subtitle: prostitution in early modern Amsterdam
By: Lotte van de Pol, translated by Liz Waters
Contributors: Waters, Liz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780199211401
Subjects: Social conditions; Prostitution; History
Other titles: Prostitution in early modern Amsterdam
Notes: Originally published: De burger en de hoer. Prostitutie in Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 2003.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [241]- 257 and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction; title: Prostitution and whoredom; title: The sources; title: About this edition; title: 1. 'Amsterdam is the academy of whoredom': prostitutes, brothels, and music houses; title: 2. 'Whores and scoundrels always talk of their honour': honour, prostitution, and the respectable citizenry; title: 3. 'The caterpillar in a cabbage, the canker in the leg': attitudes to prostitution, prostitutes, and women; title: 4. 'The world cannot be governed with a Bible in the hand': prosecution policies and their background; title: 5. 'The devil! I must have money for this': the dark side of prosecution policy; title: 6. 'Birds of a feather flock together': prostitutes, clients, and seafaring; title: 7. 'Miraculous tricks, to earn a living by idling': sex for money and money for sex; title: Notes; title: Appendix 1. Contemporary writers on Amsterdam music houses and prostitution; title: Appendix 2. Trials for prostitution in Amsterdam by decade, 1650-1749; title: Appendix 3. Dutch currency of the early modern period; title: Bibliography; title: Index.