Love for Sale Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945

Name: Love for Sale Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945
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ISBN: 9780807856901

ISBN-10: 0807856908

ISBN-13: 9780807856901

Edition: 2006

Authors: Elizabeth Clement

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Evolution of "Near Whores" and "Whores in the Making"



Today's Children: Courtship, Americanization, and Modernity



The Treat: Transforming Sexual Values at the Turn of the Century



These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: Prostitution, Commerce, and Community in Turn-of-the-Century New York City



A Fight on the Home Front: The Repression of Prostitution during World War I



Doing Our Part for the Boys in Uniform: Sexuality, Treating, Courtship, and Patriotism



Nudes Feel Pinch!: Prostitution, Prohibition, and the Emergence of America's Sex Industry



Treating, Dating, Petting, and the Class Dynamics of America's First Sexual Revolution


Conclusion: A New Type of Girl in an Old Type of Delinquency: Women, Sexuality, and Venereal Disease during World War II


Notes


Bibliography


Index