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"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"--
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Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens: commercial sex in London, 1885-1960
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230230547 9780230230545
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Table of Contents
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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