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1 online resource (189 pages) |
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Perspectives in Economic and Social History Ser |
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Perspectives in Economic and Social History Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; Sources and historiography; Legal context: the absence of a national framework; Prostitution, vagrancy and poverty; The prosecution of disorderly places; 1 Social origins and family ties of port prostitutes; The socio-economic background of port city prostitutes; Prostitutes and family: civil status, occupation and children; Family, dependence and control; Conclusion; 2 A widening sphere? Prostitutes and labour relations in a port environment; Prostitutes and drinking places |
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Labour relations with lodging-keepers and tenants of inns and tavernsIntermediaries, brokers and gender identity; Prostitutes and their customers: the negotiating process; Conclusion; 3 Prostitutes and police territorialisation: relations between the authorities and prostitutes; Police organisation and policing structures in eighteenth-century Nantes and Bristol; Territorialisation of the police and supervision of prostitutes; Regulating prostitutional spaces; Formal and informal relations between prostitutes and the agents of the law |
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Revolution, wars and prostitution: improving population controlTowards the process of regulation: regulation as a means to improve territorialisation; Prostitutes' agency and the limitations of territorial control; Conclusion; 4 Prostitution and criminality: when informal control is not enough: community, police and the court's interactions with prostitutes; Criminal prostitutes and female criminality; Opportunistic theft and its prosecution; Tapage and disorderly behaviour: negotiating with the neighbours; Gender and social control: neighbours and uses of justice; Conclusion |
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5 Spatial distribution of prostitutes: mapping agencyTopography of Bristol and Nantes; Localisation of prostitutes: Bristol; Localisation of prostitutes: Nantes pre- and post-Revolution; Prostitutes' mobility in the port city; Conclusion; Conclusion: elites and the prostitutes of the ports; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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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Print version record |
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Prostitution -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Port cities -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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Prostitutes -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Women -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Port cities.
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port glasses.
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ports (settlements)
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Economics.
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Eighteenth- Century Ports.
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Prostitution.
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Prostitution and criminality.
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police territorialisation.
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Social Control.
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Spatial distribution of prostitutes.
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The elites.
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Port cities
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Prostitutes -- Social conditions
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Prostitution
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Women -- Social conditions
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351613637 |
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1351613634 |
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