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Common prostitutes and ordinary citizens : commercial sex in London, 1885-1960

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Criminalizing Commercial Sex
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    Chapter 2 Selling Sex: Women, Work and Prostitution
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    Chapter 3 Buying Sex: Men and the Marketplace
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    Chapter 4 The Crusade Begins: The Criminal Law Amendment Act and London’s ‘Brothels’ before the First World War
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    Chapter 5 Women in Public and Public Women: Controlling Street Prostitution 1887–1914
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    Chapter 6 ‘Down on Whores’ and ‘Living on the Earnings’: Violence, Vulnerability and the Law after 1885
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    Chapter 7 White Slaves and Alien Prostitutes: Trafficking, Protection and Punishment in the Early Twentieth Century
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    Chapter 8 Making War, Taking Fingerprints and Challenging the Law: Policy Changes and Public Debates after 1914
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    Chapter 9 Behind Closed Doors: Off-Street Commercial Sex in the Interwar Years
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    Chapter 10 Sex, War and Syndication: Organized Prostitution and the Second World War
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    Chapter 11 The Shame of London: Prostitution and Panic in the Post-war Metropolis
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    Chapter 12 Risking the Dangers: Reconsidering Commercial Sex in ‘Permissive Britain’
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    Chapter 13 Conclusion
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Chapter title
Women in Public and Public Women: Controlling Street Prostitution 1887–1914
Chapter number 5
Book title
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2012
DOI 10.1057/9780230354210_5
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-31151-4, 978-0-230-35421-0
Authors

Julia Laite, Laite, Julia

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