Save the womanhood! : vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976

Save the womanhood! vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976

<i>Save the Womanhood</i> is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Caslin, Samantha, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2018.
Colección:Liverpool scholarship online.
Materias:
Women > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Women > England > Liverpool > Social conditions.
Prostitution > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Women > Crimes against > England > Liverpool > Prevention > History > 20th century.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649784806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Experts in womanhood: morality and social order before and during the First World War
  • Patrolling the port: interwar moral surveillance
  • Regulating interwar prostitution: national debates and local issues
  • Finding respectable work for women in interwar Liverpool
  • White slavery and social purists' authority
  • Female 'traffickers' and urban danger
  • Irish girls in Liverpool (I): interwar moral concerns
  • Irish girls in Liverpool (2): the Second World War and the post-war year
  • A changing of the guard: moral order, gender and urban space in the post-war years.

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