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Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens : Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 / by J. Laite.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laite, Julia, 1979-
- Series:
- Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Social history.
- Sex.
- History, Modern.
- Ethics.
- Criminology.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Social History.
- Gender Studies.
- Modern History.
- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- Social History.
- Gender Studies.
- Modern History.
- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
- Criminology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230354210
- 0230354211
- OCLC:
- 774695925
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