Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens: commercial sex in London, 1885-1960
"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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Basingstoke [England]
Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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| Series: | Genders and sexualities in history
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| 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"-- |
| Physical Description: | ix, 299 p. ill., maps |
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| spelling | Laite, Julia 1979- Verfasser aut Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens commercial sex in London, 1885-1960 Julia Laite Basingstoke [England] Palgrave Macmillan 2012 ix, 299 p. ill., maps txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Genders and sexualities in history 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 "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"-- Prostitution England London History Prostitution Law and legislation England London |
| spellingShingle | Laite, Julia 1979- Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens commercial sex in London, 1885-1960 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 Prostitution England London History Prostitution Law and legislation England London |
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