Love for sale : courting, treating, and prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 / Elizabeth Alice Clement.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clement, Elizabeth Alice.

Series:

Gender & American culture.

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Prostitution.

Sex customs--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Sex customs.

Courtship--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Courtship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called ""treating,"" Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices.Women ""treated"" when they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other material goods. The

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION. The Evolution of ''Near Whores'' and ''Whores in the Making''; CHAPTER 1. Today's Children: Courtship, Americanization, and Modernity; CHAPTER 2. The Treat: Transforming Sexual Values at the Turn of the Century; CHAPTER 3. These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: Prostitution, Commerce, and Community in Turn-of-the-Century New York City; CHAPTER 4. A Fight on the Home Front: The Repression of Prostitution during World War I; CHAPTER 5. Doing Our Part for the Boys in Uniform: Sexuality, Treating, Courtship, and Patriotism

CHAPTER 6. Nudes Feel Pinch!: Prostitution, Prohibition, and the Emergence of America's Sex IndustryCHAPTER 7. Treating, Dating, Petting, and the Class Dynamics of America's First Sexual Revolution; CONCLUSION. A New Type of Girl in an Old Type of Delinquency: Women, Sexuality, and Venereal Disease during World War II; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1998, under the title: Trick or treat: prostitution and working-class women's sexuality in New York City, 1900-1932.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-314) and index.

ISBN:

9798890871794

9780807877074

0807877077

OCLC:

82683517