Save the womanhood! : : vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976 / / Samantha Caslin.
<i>Save the Womanhood</i> is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such a...
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Superior document: | Liverpool scholarship online |
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Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2018. |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Liverpool scholarship online.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2019). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.