| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945. By Elizabeth Alice Clement. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 321 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3026-0. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5690-1.)

Elizabeth Alice Clement's Love for Sale maps changing sexual norms among New York City's working class during the first half of the twentieth century. Her book is a welcome addition to research on U.S. sexual history, standing beside earlier works by Beth Bailey and Kathy Peiss—whose scholarship Clement is indebted to and often surpasses. Clement offers a lively account of the precursors and legacies of American dating culture that developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Rather than treating prostitution as a separate topic with an autonomous history, Clement explores the symbiotic relationship between dating and vice. Love for Sale analyzes how women participated in and pioneered sexual gifting relationships that muddied boundaries between respectability and prostitution.

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