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Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (Paperback)
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Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (Paperback)
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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 ways
in which Irish nationalism used the problems of prostitution and
venereal disease to argue for the withdrawal of the British from
Ireland. She also investigates the contentious history of Magdalen
asylums and explores how the infamous red-light district of
Dublin's 'Monto' was finally suppressed through the actions of the
Legion of Mary in the 1920s. Revealing complex social and religious
attitudes towards prostitution in Irish society, this book opens up
a new world in Ireland's social and political history.
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