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Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 by Maria Luddy (2007, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521709059
ISBN-139780521709057
eBay Product ID (ePID)60310833
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameProstitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSociology / General, World / European, Europe / Great Britain / General, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorMaria Luddy
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-272877
Reviews'This is not only a meticulously researched chronicle of prostitution in Ireland, it is also an investigation into the relationship between prostitution and the kind of society Ireland was and is … Impressive in its scope, Prostitution and Irish Society 18001940 provides a comprehensive history of the workhouse system, the 'rescue' work associated with the Magdalen, convent and lay asylums, as well as the ways in which prostitutes, often (mis)represented as passive victims, used the legal system to secure justice for themselves.' The Irish Times, "This is a fine pioneering study of a topic that is difficult to deal with historically because of the tilt of the evidence...To Luddy's immense credit, she builds her analysis carefully, while at the same time pointing out with clarity just how limited and how bent the evidence necessarily is. This is mature, confident scholarship." --Canadian Journal of History, "This is an extremely impressive work that illuminates our understandings of prostitution as well as the place it occupied in Irish society from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the Irish Free State." -Lesley A. Hall, Journal of Modern History, "This well-researched book, which includes useful statistical tables and illustrations, contributes to the study of women's history and modern Irish social history. Highly recommended." -Choice, 'This is not only a meticulously researched chronicle of prostitution in Ireland, it is also an investigation into the relationship between prostitution and the kind of society Ireland was and is ... Impressive in its scope, Prostitution and Irish Society 18001940 provides a comprehensive history of the workhouse system, the 'rescue' work associated with the Magdalen, convent and lay asylums, as well as the ways in which prostitutes, often (mis)represented as passive victims, used the legal system to secure justice for themselves.' The Irish Times
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal363.4/4194109034
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. 'Frowsy, Shameless Women': an overview of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 2. 'Looking for my Living': women, community and prostitution in Ireland; 3. 'Behaved very ill': rescue work and Magdalen asylums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 4. 'The Black Plague': venereal disease in nineteenth century Ireland; 5. 'Soldiers' Totty': nationalists, suffragists and the surveillance of women, 1900-1922; 6. 'Hopeless cases': prostitution and sexual danger in the Irish Free State, 1922-1940; Conclusion.
SynopsisThis is the first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Maria Luddy uncovers the extent of prostitution in the country, how Irish women came to work as prostitutes, their living conditions and their treatment by society. She links discussions of prostitution to the Irish nationalist and suffrage movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, analysing the ways in which Irish nationalism used the problems of prostitution and venereal disease to argue for the withdrawal of the British from Ireland. She also investigates the contentious history of Magdalen asylums and explores how the infamous red-light district of Dublin's 'Monto' was finally suppressed through the actions of the Legion of Mary in the 1920s. Revealing complex social and religious attitudes towards prostitution in Irish society, this book opens up a new world in Ireland's social and political history., This is the first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Maria Luddy uncovers the extent of prostitution in the country, how Irish women came to work as prostitutes, their living conditions and their treatment by society.
LC Classification NumberHQ188.A5
