1st Edition

Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886 Deviance, Surveillance and Morality

By Catherine Lee Copyright 2013
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.

    Introduction, Catherine Lee; Chapter 1 Prostitution, Poverty and the Makeshift Economy, Catherine Lee; Chapter 2 Prostitution, Lifestyle and Life Cycle, Catherine Lee; Chapter 3 Representations of Prostitution, Catherine Lee; Chapter 4 Geographies of Prostitution, Catherine Lee; Chapter 5 Policing Prostitution, Catherine Lee; Chapter 6 The Contagious Diseases Acts in Kent, Catherine Lee; Chapter 102 Afterword, Catherine Lee;

    Biography

    Catherine Lee