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Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (Gender and American Culture)
Elizabeth Alice Clement
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Description for Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (Gender and American Culture)
Paperback. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called "treating" during the period between 1900 and 1945, this book examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices in New York. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 28 illustrations, notes, bibl., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; JFMX; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called ""treating"", Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices. Women ""treated"" when they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other material goods. These ""charity girls"" created for themselves a moral space between prostitution and courtship that preserved both sexual ... Read more
The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called ""treating"", Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices. Women ""treated"" when they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other material goods. These ""charity girls"" created for themselves a moral space between prostitution and courtship that preserved both sexual ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender and American Culture
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856901
SKU
V9780807856901
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About Elizabeth Alice Clement
ELIZABETH ALICE CLEMENT is assistant professor of history at the University of Utah.
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