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Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 New Edition
Author(s): Elizabeth Alice Clement (Author)
- Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
- Publication Date: 26 Jun. 2006
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 342 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807856908
- ISBN-13: 9780807856901
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A welcome addition to research on U.S. sexual history ‘s history. . . .
Love for Sale is a smart and engaging book that deserves a wide interdisciplinary readership.”–Journal of American History“Historians from a wide range of disciplines will find Clement’s book interesting and useful. Her study draws upon a wide variety of rich sources, explores a critical period in the evolution of men and women’s relationships, and fills an important historiographical gap.”–
American Studies“Persuasive. . . . Adds to the social history of New York literature.”–
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society“The book is an excellent, highly readable introduction to the intricacies of gendered sexual expression. Highly recommended.”–
CHOICE“Vividly illuminates the inequities and disadvantages that shadowed women’s entry into modern dating. . . . [An] important contribution to the history of modern American sexuality.”–
American Historical Review
