Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945

2 CommentsBartering

Product DescriptionThe intense urbanization and industrialization of America’s largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called “treating,” Elizabeth Clement examines changes in sexual morality [...]

Tags: 19001945, City, Courting, Love, Prostitution, Sale, Treating, York