Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on June 21, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm059
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Elizabeth Alice Clement. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 19001945
Elizabeth Alice Clement. Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 19001945. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiii + 321 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5690-8, $21.95 (paper)
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Nineteenth-century middle class reformers were surprised when young women who traded sex for money observed that they only did what wives did, and without having to clean house, too. Elizabeth Clement builds on this connection between marriage and prostitution by focusing on the evolution of "treating" in early twentieth-century New York City. She attempts to discover why and how prostitution and treating came to divide so sharply that we now believe prostitutes and their customers engage
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