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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
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- '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.)