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Maria Luddy - Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940

Av Maria Luddy

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Beskrivning
This is the first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Maria Luddy uncovers the extent of prostitution in the country, how Irish women came to work as prostitutes, their living conditions and their treatment by society. She links discussions of prostitution to the Irish nationalist and suffrage movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, analysing the ways in which Irish nationalism used the problems of prostitution and venereal disease to argue for the withdrawal of the British from Ireland. She also investigates the contentious history of Magdalen asylums and explores how the infamous red-light district of Dublin's 'Monto' was finally suppressed through the actions of the Legion of Mary in the 1920s. Revealing complex social and religious attitudes towards prostitution in Irish society, this book opens up a new world in Ireland's social and political history.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-12-13
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 660 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521882415
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Maria Luddy is Professor of Modern Irish History in the Department of History, University of Warwick. Her previous publications include Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1995) and, as editor, The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy, 1854-56 (2004).

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'This is not only a meticulously researched chronicle of prostitution in Ireland, it is also an investigation into the relationship between prostitution and the kind of society Ireland was and is … Impressive in its scope, Prostitution and Irish Society 1800–1940 provides a comprehensive history of the workhouse system, the 'rescue' work associated with the Magdalen, convent and lay asylums, as well as the ways in which prostitutes, often (mis)represented as passive victims, used the legal system to secure justice for themselves.' The Irish Times

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