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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Table of Contents:
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- 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.