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- Title
Wolfenden's Women: Prostitution in Post‐ war Britain.
- Abstract
The book begins with a helpfully clear and concise overview of the history of the Wolfenden Committee that was set up in 1954, with John Wolfenden as the chairman, and places the committee within the wider context of the history of prostitution and sexuality in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The publication of the 1957 report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (commonly known as the Wolfenden Report) is often heralded as a landmark moment in the history of sexuality in Britain because of the report's recommendation that the state should not be involved in the policing of sexual behaviour that occurred in private between consenting adults. However, as the authors rightly point out, the report's significance has mainly been seen in relation to the policing of homosexuality, while its ramifications for the policing of prostitution have been largely overlooked.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WOMEN in war; SEX work; HUMAN sexuality; SEX industry
- Publication
History, 2021, Vol 106, Issue 373, p857
- ISSN
0018-2648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-229X.13206