Slumming Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London |
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| Author:
| Koven, Seth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-12800-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $47.00 |
Book Description:
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Paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.
Paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.