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Love for sale : courting, treating, and prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945
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Love for sale : courting, treating, and prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945

Author: Elizabeth Alice Clement
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Series: Gender & American culture.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Alice Clement
ISBN: 0807830267 9780807830260 0807856908 9780807856901
OCLC Number: 62782220
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1998, under the title: Trick or treat: prostitution and working-class women's sexuality in New York City, 1900-1932.
Description: xiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title: Gender & American culture.
Responsibility: Elizabeth Alice Clement.
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