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Loading... Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (2006)by Elizabeth Clement
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Belongs to SeriesGender and American Culture (2006)
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 Alice 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. The No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.7409747Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Sex work Biography And History North AmericaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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