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Save the womanhood! vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976

Title: Save the womanhood! [electronic resource] : vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976 / Samantha Caslin.
Author: Caslin, Samantha.
Publication: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.

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Description

1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations.

Uniform Title

Save the womanhood! (Online)

Alternative Title

Save the womanhood! (Online)
Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976

Subject

Working class women > England > Liverpool > Conduct of life
Working class women > England > Liverpool > Social conditions
Women > England > Liverpool > Social conditions > 20th century
Women immigrants > Services for > England > Liverpool
Promiscuity > England > Liverpool
Social control > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century
Liverpool (England) > Moral conditions > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Experts in womanhood: morality and social order before and during the First World War -- Patrolling the port: interwar moral surveillance -- Regulating interwar prostitution: national debates and local issues -- Finding respectable work for women in interwar Liverpool -- White slavery and social purists' authority -- Female 'traffickers' and urban danger -- Irish girls in Liverpool (I): interwar moral concerns -- Irish girls in Liverpool (2): the Second World War and the post-war year -- A changing of the guard: moral order, gender and urban space in the post-war years.

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