UID:
kobvindex_HPB1031919107
Format:
1 online resource (234 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781786948809
,
178694880X
Content:
The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themselves.
Note:
Experts in womanhood: morality and social order before and during the First World War -- Patrolling the port: interwar moral surveillance -- Regulating interwar prostitution: national debates and local issues -- Finding respectable work for women in interwar Liverpool -- White slavery and social purists' authority -- Female 'traffickers' and urban danger -- Irish girls in Liverpool (I): interwar moral concerns -- Irish girls in Liverpool (2): the Second World War and the post-war year -- A changing of the guard: moral order, gender and urban space in the post-war years.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Caslin, Samantha. Save the womanhood! Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781786941251
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
URL:
Cambridge University Press
URL:
View this content on Open Research Library.
URL:
Liverpool University Press
