Middle-Class Rhetoric and Working-Class Reality : Discourses on Female Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Montréal
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Middle-Class Rhetoric and Working-Class Reality : Discourses on Female Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Montréal
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Abstract |
The author examines the rhetoric of the Committee of Sixteen, an Anglophone Montreal anti-prostitution group of doctors, social reformers, religious authorities, business leaders and lawyers that existed from 1917 to 1926, and their beliefs as to why women entered into "the world's oldest profession."
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Canadian Content: The McGill Undergraduate Journal of Canadian Studies
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Vol. 5
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68-77
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Spring 2013
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en
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Chung, Matthew. “Middle-Class Rhetoric and Working-Class Reality : Discourses on Female Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Montréal.” Canadian Content: The McGill Undergraduate Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 5 (Spring 2013): 68–77. https://mcgill.ca/misc/files/misc/canadian_content_2013_pdf.pdf.
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