Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens : commercial sex in London, 1885-1960 / / Julia Laite.
"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...
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Superior document: | Genders and sexualities in history |
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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Genders and sexualities in history.
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Physical Description: | ix, 299 p. :; ill., maps. |
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens |h [electronic resource] : |b commercial sex in London, 1885-1960 / |c Julia Laite. |
260 | |a Basingstoke [England] : |b Palgrave Macmillan, |c 2012. | ||
300 | |a ix, 299 p. : |b ill., maps. | ||
490 | 1 | |a Genders and sexualities in history | |
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Criminalizing Commercial Sex -- Selling sex: Women, Work, and Prostitution -- Buying Sex: Men and the Marketplace -- The Crusade Begins: The Criminal Law Amendment Act and London's 'Brothels' Before the First World War -- Women in Public and Public Women: Controlling Street Prostitution 1887-1914 -- 'Down on Whores' and 'Living on the Earnings': Violence, Vulnerability and the Law after 1885 -- White Slaves and Alien Prostitutes: Trafficking, Protection, and Punishment in the Early Twentieth Century -- Making War, Taking Fingerprints, and Challenging the Law: Policy Changes and Public Debates after 1914 -- Behind Closed Doors: Off-Street Commercial Sex in the Interwar Years -- Sex, War, and Syndication: Organized Prostitution and the Second World War -- The Shame of London: Prostitution and Panic in the Post-War Metropolis -- Risking the Dangers: Reconsidering Commercial Sex in 'Permissive Britain' -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
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