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 of the underground sexual economy in the modern metropolis"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2012
Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2012
History
1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780230354210, 0230354211
774695925
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
English