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Policing Prostitution, 1856-1886 : Deviance, Surveillance and Morality.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Economic and Social History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317321491
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Policing Prostitution, 1856-1886DDC classification:
  • 363.4409422309034
LOC classification:
  • HQ186.L44 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Prostitution, Poverty and the Makeshift Economy -- 2 Prostitution, Lifestyle and Life Cycle -- 3 Representations of Prostitution -- 4 Geographies of Prostitution -- 5 Policing Prostitution -- 6 The Contagious Diseases Acts in Kent -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Prostitution, Poverty and the Makeshift Economy -- 2 Prostitution, Lifestyle and Life Cycle -- 3 Representations of Prostitution -- 4 Geographies of Prostitution -- 5 Policing Prostitution -- 6 The Contagious Diseases Acts in Kent -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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