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Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports (Hardcover)
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Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes
were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France,
despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based
primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside
Atlantic industries that attracted many migrants, both male and
female, from the surrounding countryside and from abroad. The busy
urban environment, the high number of sailors and single men
migrating to the port, and the decline of female house based
proto-industries, were factors encouraging the development of
prostitution. How prostitution is perceived in the context of
social control and urban change is key to understanding the
evolving attitudes to gender and sexuality in the eighteenth
century. In this comparative study, Marion Pluskota offers an
analysis of the lives of prostitutes that looks beyond a purely
criminal perspective, and which encompasses their roles within
their families, relationships and social networks. Using police and
judicial records, she provides a valuable corrective to the narrow
analysis of prostitutes in terms of immorality or deviance. The
unique forms of development and problems faced by port cities in
the early modern period make them particularly interesting subjects
for comparative history. This book is well suited for those who
study social history, gender and women's history.
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