Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940

The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland.

Autorentext
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).

Klappentext
The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland.


Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. 'Frowsy, Shameless Women': an overview of prostitution in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 2. 'Looking for my Living': women, community and prostitution in Ireland; 3. 'Behaved very ill': rescue work and Magdalen asylums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 4. 'The Black Plague': venereal disease in nineteenth century Ireland; 5. 'Soldiers' Totty': nationalists, suffragists and the surveillance of women, 1900-1922; 6. 'Hopeless cases': prostitution and sexual danger in the Irish Free State, 1922-1940; Conclusion.

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