Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940

by Maria Luddy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521709059
• ISBN13: 9780521709057
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"