Save the womanhood! : vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976 / Samantha Caslin.
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TextPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781786948809
- 178694880X
- Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976
- 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
- Femmes -- Angleterre -- Liverpool -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- Immigrantes -- Services -- Angleterre -- Liverpool
- Promiscuité -- Angleterre -- Liverpool
- Contrôle social -- Angleterre -- Liverpool -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Moral conditions
- Promiscuity
- Prostitution
- Social control
- Women immigrants -- Services for
- Women -- Social conditions
- Working class women -- Social conditions
- England -- Liverpool
- HQ1600.L58 C37 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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