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Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation

Title : The 'perpetual fair': Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London (Gender in History)
Author : Anne Wohlcke
Language : en
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