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Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens : Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 (1st ed. 2012)

Part of the Genders and Sexualities in History series
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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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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1349311510 / 9781349311514
Paperback / softback
01/01/2012
United Kingdom
299 pages, XIII, 299 p.
140 x 216 mm