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

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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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Author / Contributor: Caslin, Samantha (Author)
Imprint: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Working class women > England > Liverpool > Conduct of life.
Working class women > England > Liverpool > Social conditions.
Women > England > Liverpool > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women immigrants > Services for > England > Liverpool.
Promiscuity > England > Liverpool.
Prostitution > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Social control > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century.
Liverpool (England) > Moral conditions > History > 20th century.
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Summary: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 themselves.
Physical Description:1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781786948809
178694880X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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