The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton

The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne

Barbara Minchinton

9 hours first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed...

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informative 100%
reflective 43%
challenging 25%
emotional 12%
funny 12%
inspiring 12%
sad 12%

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fast 6%

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