Love for sale : courting, treating, and prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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Series: | Gender and American culture
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=174037 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The evolution of "near whores" and "whores in the making"
- Today's children: courtship, Americanization, and modernity
- The treat: transforming sexual values at the turn of the century
- These are the people in your neighborhood: prostitution, commerce, and community in turn-of-the-century New York City
- A fight on the home front: the repression of prostitution during World War I
- Doing our part for the boys in uniform: sexuality, treating, courtship, and patriotism
- Nudes fell pinch!: prostitution, prohibition, and the emergence of America's sex industry
- Treating, dating, petting, and the class dynamics of America's first sexual revolution
- Conclusion: A new type of girl in an old type of delinquency: women, sexuality, and venereal disease during World War II.