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Policing prostitution, 1856-1886 : deviance, surveillance and morality
- Title
- Policing prostitution, 1856-1886 : deviance, surveillance and morality / by Catherine Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Catherine (Research affiliate in History at The Open University)
- Publication
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 201 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Prostitution was rife in the cities of Victorian Britain. 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. Lee argues that a wider degree of heterogeneity existed among women involved in prostitution than has previously been presented, and that in Kent in particular the impact of the controversial Contagious Diseases Acts was less uniform than has been thought. She demonstrates that nineteenth-century prostitution is best understood as part of the wider context of policing and urban control."--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 24
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 24.
- Subjects
- Prostitution
- Prostitution > Government policy
- Police
- England
- Prostituierte
- England > Kent
- Prostitution > England > Kent > History > 19th century
- History
- Wirtschaftliche Lage
- Prostitution > history
- Prostitution > Government policy > England > Kent > History > 19th century
- Kent
- Sex Workers > history
- Strafverfolgung
- Police > England > Kent > History > 19th century
- Soziale Situation
- Sexuell übertragbare Krankheit
- Kent (England)
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases > history
- Polizei
- 1800 - 1899
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
- Contents
- Prostitution, Poverty and the Makeshift Economy -- Prostitution, Lifestyle and Life Cycle -- Representations of Prostitution -- Geographies of Prostitution -- Policing Prostitution -- The Contagious Diseases Acts in Kent.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7906
- ISBN
- 9781848932746 (hbk.)
- 184893274X (hbk.)
- 1848932758 (ebook)
- 9781848932753 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2012289888
- OCLC
- 806494312
- Author
- Lee, Catherine (Research affiliate in History at The Open University)
- Title
- Policing prostitution, 1856-1886 : deviance, surveillance and morality / by Catherine Lee.
- Imprint
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 24Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 24.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800 - 1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7906