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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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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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