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Prostitution and Irish society, 1800-1940

Author
Luddy, Maria.
Title
Prostitution and Irish society, 1800-1940 / Maria Luddy.
Format
Book
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
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 centures
  • 'The black plague': veneral diseases in ninteenth-century Ireland
  • 'Soldier's totty': nationalists, siffragists and the surveillance of women, 1900-22
  • 'Hopeless cases': prostitution and sexaul danger in the Irish Free State, 1922-40.
Kinsey subjects
Prostitution--Ireland. Prostitution history--Ireland. Prostitution research. Sex and society--Ireland. Prostitution and venereal diseases.
ISBN
9780521882415 (hbk.) 0521882419 (hbk.) 9780521709057 (pbk.) 0521709059 (pbk.)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
384.1 L83 p7 2007
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute