Regulating sexuality
Subtitle: women in twentieth-century Northern Ireland
By: Leanne McCormick
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780719076640
Description: This is an examination of the attempts to regulate female sexuality in 20th-century Northern Ireland which opens up new and exciting areas of a previously neglected history. It explores the sexual experiences of women, in the context of the distinctive religious, political and social circumstances of Northern Ireland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Dirty girls and bad houses' : prostitutes and prostitution; title: 'Angels who have lost their way' : the work of rescue and reform homes; title: 'Modesty is the sister of virtue' : moral prevention work with girls; title: 'People should keep a grip of themselves' : treatment and prevention of VD; title: 'One Yank and they're off' : interaction between US Troops and Northern Irish women, 1942-1945; title: 'Confused with prejudice and muddled thinking' : preventing pregnancy.