Love for sale : courting, treating, and prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 /
Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called 'treating' during the period between 1900 and 1945, this book examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices in New York.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The evolution of "near whores" and "whores in the making"
- Today's children: courtship, Americanization, and modernity
- The treat: transforming sexual values at the turn of the century
- These are the people in your neighborhood: prostitution, commerce, and community in turn-of-the-century New York City
- A fight on the home front: the repression of prostitution during World War I
- Doing our part for the boys in uniform: sexuality, treating, courtship, and patriotism
- Nudes fell pinch!: prostitution, prohibition, and the emergence of America's sex industry
- 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.