Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens
Subtitle: commercial sex in London, 1885-1960
By: Julia Laite
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230230545
Subjects: History; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Law and legislation; Prostitution; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: Criminalizing Commercial Sex; title: Selling sex: Women, Work, and Prostitution; title: Buying Sex: Men and the Marketplace; title: The Crusade Begins: The Criminal Law Amendment Act and London's 'Brothels' Before the First World War; title: Women in Public and Public Women: Controlling Street Prostitution 1887-1914; title: 'Down on Whores' and 'Living on the Earnings': Violence, Vulnerability and the Law after 1885; title: White Slaves and Alien Prostitutes: Trafficking, Protection, and Punishment in the Early Twentieth Century; title: Making War, Taking Fingerprints, and Challenging the Law: Policy Changes and Public Debates after 1914; title: Behind Closed Doors: Off-Street Commercial Sex in the Interwar Years; title: Sex, War, and Syndication: Organized Prostitution and the Second World War; title: The Shame of London: Prostitution and Panic in the Post-War Metropolis; title: Risking the Dangers: Reconsidering Commercial Sex in 'Permissive Britain'; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.