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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Anne Poutanen , Mary Anne PoutanenPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 40.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9780773545335ISBN 10: 0773545336 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 10 July 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis powerfully argued work significantly enriches established understandings of prostitution' s history. the breadth and depth of Poutanen' s research should set a benchmark for other historians of commercial sex, its practice and legal regulation. Above all, the author' s sensitivity towards the historical actors involved in the trade- the women, but also the customers, the police, the judges, jurors and jail keepers- is social history at its best. Feminist Review Poutanen offers a history from below ... a material history of the lives of women who traded sex for money. Throughout, one grasps the permeability of private and public lives. Apart from the meticulous research, a strong point of this book is, its use of eloquent maps, figures, and graphs. With a visual representation of the topography of the city, with the location of its disreputable houses and the places where the arrests of street prostitutes took place, the reader can follow the development of law enforcement and the composition of the sex trade over thirty years. The Canadian Historical Review Author InformationMary Anne Poutanen teaches in the Department of History at Concordia University, in the Programme d'e tudes sur le Que bec at McGill University, and at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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