1st Edition
Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports
By Marion Pluskota
Copyright 2016
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
188 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside Atlantic industries that attracted many migrants, both male and female, from the surrounding countryside and from abroad. The busy urban... Read more
Introduction I. Social origins and family ties of port prostitutes II. A widening sphere? Prostitutes and labour relations in a port environment III. Prostitutes and police territorialisation: from informal control to a better supervision of the population IV. Prostitution and criminality: when informal control is not enough. Community, police and the court’s interactions with prostitutes V. Spatial distribution of prostitutes: Agency and appropriation of the urban space Conclusion. The elites and the prostitutes of the ports.
Biography
Marion Pluskota is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
