Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years
Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years
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作为男孩：两次世界大战期间的青春、休闲和身份
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2013
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Sarah Mills
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Sarah Mills
尽管正如立法者所希望的那样进行广泛的社会、经济和道德改革，但与商业性行为有关的政策和实践的这些变化似乎使伦敦妓女比过去更容易面临各种危险，包括逮捕、监禁、驱逐、勒索、强奸和谋杀。正如 20 世纪 50 年代社会学家罗莎琳德·威尔金森 (Rosalind Wilkinson) 采访的一位妓女所指出的那样，“如果你不了解改革的对象，那么改革就没有意义”（第 189 页）。鉴于伦敦的非典型特征，莱特小心翼翼地没有假设伦敦提供了一个具有代表性的案例研究，并在整本书中强调了其区域特殊性。她指出，迫切需要对二十世纪英国其他地区的性工作历史进行进一步调查，而男性卖淫的相关主题以及关于性工作与毒瘾之间联系的常见且经常被视为理所当然的假设（不仅在历史上，而且在今天）本身都值得进行一本书的研究。对撰写这些急需的历史感兴趣的学者最好以《普通妓女》和《普通公民》为模型。这是一本写得很好、内容丰富、引人入胜的书，它将引起所有研究二十世纪英国性和性别的历史学家的极大兴趣和相关性。它将为本科生和研究生的阅读清单增添宝贵的内容。希望平装本很快就会出现，帮助它赢得应有的读者。
widespread social, economic and moral reform as legislators hoped, these changes in policy and practice relating to commercial sex seem to have left London prostitutes significantly more at risk of a variety of dangers including arrest, imprisonment, eviction, extortion, rape and murder than they had been in the past. As one prostitute interviewed in the 1950s by the sociologist Rosalind Wilkinson pointed out, ‘It’s no use making reforms if you do not understand the people you are making them for’ (p. 189). Laite is careful not to assume that London provides a representative case study, given its atypical character, and emphasises its regional specificities throughout the book. She observes that there is a pressing need for further investigations into the history of sex work in other regions of the UK during the twentieth century and that the related subjects of male prostitution and the commonplace and often taken-for-granted assumptions about links between sex work and drug addiction (not just historically but in the present day) both deserve book-length studies in their own right. Scholars interested in writing these much-needed histories would do well to use Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens as a model. This is a well-written, informative and engaging book that will be of great interest and relevance to all historians working on sexuality and gender in twentieth-century Britain. It will make an invaluable addition to both undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. It is to be hoped that a paperback version will appear shortly, helping it gain the audience it deserves.