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Prostitution and Irish society, 1800-1940
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Prostitution and Irish society, 1800-1940

Author: Maria Luddy
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Maria Luddy
ISBN: 9780521882415 0521882419 9780521709057 0521709059
OCLC Number: 154706356
Description: xiii, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: 'Frowsy, shameless women': an overview of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- 'Looking for my living': women, community and prostitution in Ireland -- 'Behaved very ill': rescue work and Magdalen asylums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- 'The black plague': venereal diseases in nineteenth-century Ireland -- 'Soldier's totty': nationalists, suffragists and the surveillance of women, 1900-40 -- 'Hopeless cases': prostitution and sexual danger in the Irish Free State, 1922-40.
Responsibility: Maria Luddy.
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