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Author Caslin, Samantha, author.

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

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject 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 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrRycHmWFfDdbbpf9MT3
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Added Title Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976
Other Form: Print version: Caslin, Samantha. Save the womanhood! Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018 9781786941251 (OCoLC)1008763028
ISBN 9781786948809 (epdf)
178694880X (epdf)
9781786941251 (cloth)
1786941252 (cloth)
Standard No. AU@ 000063918649
DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910051745505765

 
    
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