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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clement, Elizabeth Alice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
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.