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Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945 (Gender and American Culture) Hardcover – June 26, 2006

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The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles. Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called "treating," Elizabeth Alice Clement examines changes in sexual morality and sexual and economic practices.

Women "treated" when they exchanged sexual favors for dinner and an evening's entertainment or, more tangibly, for stockings, shoes, and other material goods. These "charity girls" created for themselves a moral space between prostitution and courtship that preserved both sexual barter and respectability. Although treating, as a clearly articulated language and identity, began to disappear after the 1920s and 1930s, Clement argues that it still had significant, lasting effects on modern sexual norms. She demonstrates how treating shaped courtship and dating practices, the prevalence and meaning of premarital sex, and America's developing commercial sex industry. Even further, her study illuminates the ways in which sexuality and morality interact and contribute to our understanding of the broader social categories of race, gender, and class.
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    Gender and American Culture
  2. Print length
    344 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    The University of North Carolina Press
  5. Publication date
    June 26, 2006
  6. Dimensions
    6.14 x 0.78 x 9.21 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0807856908
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0807856901
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Love for Sale would be an excellent addition to an upper-level undergraduate course in the history of sexuality or US women's history.--Journal of the History of Sexuality

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With rich examples relayed through an often sparkling narrative, Clement eloquently and persuasively outlines the process through which the emergence and evolution of 'treating' created a new and more permissive continuum for female heterosexual behavior. She demonstrates how the sexual practices of working-class youth in many ways became the model and set the trajectory for the development of 'modern' American sexual norms and practices. This is a remarkable book.--Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press; Annotated edition (June 26, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807856908
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807856901
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.78 x 9.21 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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thotscholar
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Starting Point
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2022
for those who want to understand modern-day "treating," "talking," and dating, this is an excellent starting point. from here you can hit the bibliography if you want to go any deeper. i would love to see a history from a nonwhite female/male perspective because I'm sure it would be fascinating.
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Zebrato
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2008
This is a wonderful book. It's fabulously researched, beautifully written, and has a compelling argument. Clement's book focuses on the 'gray area' of sexual exchange--the series of negotiations in between prostitution (on one end of the scale) and marriage (on the other)--that Kathy Peiss identified as 'treating.' In this fab book, however, Clement expands on Peiss' insight to show how central treating was to working class sexual practices, and situates treating in relationship to its near relations: prostitution, what we now call the 'sex industry' (exotic dancing, nude modeling, etc), heterosexual courtship practices, and what became known as 'dating' by the 1920s. Anyway, there's lots more to commend it. It's the next word on the history of prostitution and commodified sexuality in early 20th century America. I recommend it for teaching purposes, to be sure, but for general readers as well!
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Joseph W. Showalter
5.0 out of 5 stars How we came to be a dating nation
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2007
This is a really in-depth and interesting study into the sexual and moral changes that occured in the United States during the first 50 years of the 20th century. I was taken with the level of scholarship, clear exposition, and insightful connections that the author brings to the whole subject of how gender/sexual roles evolved during this period. Although it is an academic book, it is nonetheless, an enjoyable and informative one.

J. W. Showalter, Ph.D.
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