Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 by Julia Laite

Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960

Genders and Sexualities in History

Julia Laite

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminali...

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