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Love for Sale - Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (Paperback, New edition)
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Love for Sale - Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Gender and American Culture
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The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest
city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was
accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual
practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship
with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called
""treating"", Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual
morality and sexual and economic practices. Women ""treated"" when
they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's
entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other
material goods. These ""charity girls"" created for themselves a
moral space between prostitution and courtship that preserved both
sexual barter and respectability. Although treating, as a clearly
articulated language and identity, began to disappear after the
1920s and 1930s, Clement argues that it still had significant,
lasting effects on modern sexual norms. She demonstrates how
treating shaped courtship and dating practices, the prevalence and
meaning of premarital sex, and America's developing commercial sex
industry. Even further, her study illuminates the ways in which
sexuality and morality interact and contribute to our understanding
of the broader social categories of race, gender, and class.
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