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

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themsel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caslin, Samantha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.