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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laite, Julia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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:XIII, 299 p online resource
ISBN:9780230354210