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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
