Wolfenden's Women: Prostitution in Post-War Britain

by Julia Laite and Samantha Caslin

This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on the subject of prostitution. The Committee is remembered, first and foremost, for recommending the decriminalization of sex between men. However, the other half of its remit-prostitution-has largely been forgotten, despite the fact that prostitution, not homosexuality, was the original impetus behind the Committee's appointment. If we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137440201
• ISBN13: 9781137440204
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"