Title Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven.

Publication Info.	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HV4085.L6 K68 2004	Available	---

Description	xvii, 399 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-377) and index.
Contents	I: Incognitos, fictions, and cross-class masquerades -- Workhouse nights: homelessness, homosexuality, and cross-class masquerades -- Dr. Barnardo's artistic fictions: photography, sexuality, and the ragged child -- The American girl in London: gender, journalism, and social investigation in the late victorian metropolis -- II: Cross-class sisterhood and brotherhood in the slums -- The politics and erotics of dirt: cross-class sisterhood in the slums -- The "new man" in the slums: religion, masculinity, and the men's settlement house movement.
Subject	Poor -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
	Poor.
	England -- London.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Slums -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
	Slums.
	Sex customs -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
	Sex customs.
	Voluntarism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
	Voluntarism.
	Charities -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
	Charities.
	London (England) -- Social conditions.
	Sexual practices.
ISBN	0691115923 cloth alkaline paper