Save the Womanhood!: Vice, Urban Immorality and Social Control in Liverpool, C. 1900-1976

by Samantha Caslin

Book Overview

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.

Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save' working-class women from themselves. The book examines how the work of the Liverpool Vigilance Association was supplemented by others, such as the Women Police Patrols, the Liverpool House of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800857160
• ISBN13: 9781800857162
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 248 Pages