Save the Womanhood! - Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976Pevná vazba
Save the Womanhood! - Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976Pevná vazba Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts…
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Save the Womanhood! - Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976Pevná vazba
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. It argues that though these organizations helped many lost and stranded women, their work also enacted a form of moral surveillance on the streets. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such as the Women Police Patrols, the Liverpool House of Help and the local branch of the Catholic Women's League.
The book also brings together a wide range of local and national sources to show that when female-run, local As such, the book uncovers how important twentieth-century anxieties about changing sexual practices, female immigration, white slavery and the rise of new consumer cultures played out at local level and with what consequences for women in Liverpool.