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Caslin, Samantha,

Save the womanhood! : vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976 / Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c.1900-1976 Samantha Caslin. - ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

Experts in womanhood: morality and social order before and during the First World War -- Patrolling the port: interwar moral surveillance -- Regulating interwar prostitution: national debates and local issues -- Finding respectable work for women in interwar Liverpool -- White slavery and social purists' authority -- Female 'traffickers' and urban danger -- Irish girls in Liverpool (I): interwar moral concerns -- Irish girls in Liverpool (2): the Second World War and the post-war year -- A changing of the guard: moral order, gender and urban space in the post-war years.

ISBN: 9781786941251 1786941252

LCCN: 2020445836

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB7O6281 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 018652102 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Working class women--Conduct of life.--England--Liverpool
Working class women--Social conditions.--England--Liverpool
Women--Social conditions--England--Liverpool--20th century.
Women immigrants--Services for--England--Liverpool.
Promiscuity--England--Liverpool.
Social control--History--England--Liverpool--20th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Liverpool (England)--Moral conditions--History--20th century.