Save the Womanhood!
Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to ‘save’ working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such as the Women Police Patrols, t...
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Liverpool University Press
2022
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | OCN: 1031919107 |
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| author | Caslin, Samantha |
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| description | Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to ‘save’ working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such as the Women Police Patrols, the Liverpool House of Help and the local branch of the Catholic Women’s League. It argues that though these organizations helped many lost and stranded women, their work also enacted a form of moral surveillance on the streets. As such, the book uncovers how important twentieth-century anxieties about changing sexual practices, female immigration, white slavery and the rise of new consumer cultures played out at local level and with what consequences for women in Liverpool. The book also brings together a wide range of local and national sources to show that when female-run, local organizations concerned about immorality went into decline in the post-war years, it was because official institutions and local law enforcement had increasingly taken up their cause. Consequently, Save the Womanhood argues that young, working-class women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure continued to arouse moral anxiety even as the city’s social purists battled to maintain their influence. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-782292025-07-31T02:24:03Z Save the Womanhood! Caslin, Samantha History Social History History Europe Great Britain Social Science Women's Studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to ‘save’ working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such as the Women Police Patrols, the Liverpool House of Help and the local branch of the Catholic Women’s League. It argues that though these organizations helped many lost and stranded women, their work also enacted a form of moral surveillance on the streets. As such, the book uncovers how important twentieth-century anxieties about changing sexual practices, female immigration, white slavery and the rise of new consumer cultures played out at local level and with what consequences for women in Liverpool. The book also brings together a wide range of local and national sources to show that when female-run, local organizations concerned about immorality went into decline in the post-war years, it was because official institutions and local law enforcement had increasingly taken up their cause. Consequently, Save the Womanhood argues that young, working-class women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure continued to arouse moral anxiety even as the city’s social purists battled to maintain their influence. 2022-02-13T04:01:34Z 2022-02-13T04:01:34Z 2022-02-12T05:31:51Z 2018 book OCN: 1031919107 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52807 9781786948809 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78229 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52807/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52807/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52807/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52807/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52807/1/external_content.pdf Liverpool University Press Liverpool University Press aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched 9781786948809 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2022: HSS Backlist Books Liverpool University Press open access |
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