Format:
Online-Ressource (ix, 299 p.)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780230230545
,
9781283440028
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history
Content:
Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization, and charts the complex dimensions of the underground sexual economy in the modern metropolis
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-284) and index
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Criminalizing Commercial Sex; 1 Selling Sex: Women, Work and Prostitution; 2 Buying Sex: Men and the Marketplace; 3 The Crusade Begins: The Criminal Law Amendment Act and London's 'Brothels' before the First World War; 4 Women in Public and Public Women: Controlling Street Prostitution 1887-1914; 5 'Down on Whores' and 'Living on the Earnings': Violence, Vulnerability and the Law after 1885; 6 White Slaves and Alien Prostitutes: Trafficking, Protection and Punishment in the Early Twentieth Century
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7 Making War, Taking Fingerprints and Challenging the Law: Policy Changes and Public Debates after 19148 Behind Closed Doors: Off-Street Commercial Sex in the Interwar Years; 9 Sex, War and Syndication: Organized Prostitution and the Second World War; 10 The Shame of London: Prostitution and Panic in the Post-war Metropolis; 11 Risking the Dangers: Reconsidering Commercial Sex in 'Permissive Britain'; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230354210
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230230545
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens : Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
URL:
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