Love for sale courting, treating, and prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945
The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of he...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
c 2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798132906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION. The Evolution of ''Near Whores'' and ''Whores in the Making''; CHAPTER 1. Today's Children: Courtship, Americanization, and Modernity; CHAPTER 2. The Treat: Transforming Sexual Values at the Turn of the Century; CHAPTER 3. These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: Prostitution, Commerce, and Community in Turn-of-the-Century New York City; CHAPTER 4. A Fight on the Home Front: The Repression of Prostitution during World War I; CHAPTER 5. Doing Our Part for the Boys in Uniform: Sexuality, Treating, Courtship, and Patriotism
- CHAPTER 6. Nudes Feel Pinch!: Prostitution, Prohibition, and the Emergence of America's Sex IndustryCHAPTER 7. Treating, Dating, Petting, and the Class Dynamics of America's First Sexual Revolution; CONCLUSION. A New Type of Girl in an Old Type of Delinquency: Women, Sexuality, and Venereal Disease during World War II; Notes; Bibliography; Index
