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Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization, and charts the complex dimensions of the underground sexual economy in the modern metropolis.
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Front Matter
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About the author
JULIA LAITE Lecturer in Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has published several articles on prostitution in Britain and is presently researching women's migration, sexual labour, and human trafficking in the twentieth century world.
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Book Title: Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Book Subtitle: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960
Authors: Julia Laite
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354210
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23054-5Published: 02 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31151-4Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35421-0Published: 02 December 2011
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 299
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Gender Studies, Modern History, Ethics, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general