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Wolfenden's Women - Prostitution in Post-war Britain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Wolfenden's Women - Prostitution in Post-war Britain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
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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 consider
the Committee and its Report from this perspective, its status as
both a liberal and permissive endeavour must be called into
question. This book captures the controversy, diversity and
complexity of opinions surrounding prostitution in this period, and
provides critical analysis and context. It restores the question of
prostitution to its central place in the history of
Britain'sso-called progressive era and challenges the way that the
Report and its legacy have been characterized. Crucially, this book
highlights the substantial evidence gathered by the Committee on
prostitution outside of London, which the Wolfenden Report itself
largely disregarded. The excerpts, the reprinted report, and the
critical introductions to each chapter are intended to spark
important debates amongst students, researchers and the public
about the history of sexuality, society and the state in
twentieth-century Britain.
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