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Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521270642
A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Author : Trevor Fisher
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X006128405
Fascinating excerpts from newspapers, journals, diaries, and letters show that although prostitution was widespread in Victorian Britain, it was not altogether considerd amoral.
Author : Paul McHugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247767
In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal diseases. The coercive nature of the Contagious Diseases Acts and the double standard which allowed the continuance of prostitution on the ground that the prostitute 'herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue', aroused the ire of many reformers, not only women’s rights campaigners. Paul McHugh analyses the social composition of the different repeal and reform movements – the liberal reformists, the passionate struggle of the charismatic Josephine Butler, the Tory reformers whose achievement was in the improvement of preventative medicine, and finally the Social Purity movement of the 1880s which favoured a coercive approach. This is a fascinating study of ideals and principles in action, of pressure-group strategy, and of individual leaders in the repeal movement’s sixteen year progress to victory. The book was originally publised in 1980.
Author : Nina Attwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317324256
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.
Author : Trevor Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : England
ISBN : 0750911255
An examination of the issue of prostitution in Victorian society, which looks at the extent to which it was practised and attitudes towards it during the period, with consideration of groups who argued for and against its legalization.
Author : Dr Paula Bartley,Paula Bartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134610716
Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 is the first comprehensive overview of attempts to eradicate prostitution from English society, including discussion of early attempts at reform and prevention through to the campaigns of the social purists. Prostitution looks in depth at the various reform institutions which were set up to house prostitutes, analysing the motives of the reformers as well as daily life within these penitentiaries. This indispensable book reveals: * reformers' attitudes towards prostitutes and prostitution * daily life inside reform institutions * attempts at moral education * developments in moral health theories * influence of eugenics * attempts at suppressing prostitution.
Author : Jane Pearson,Maria Rayner
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912260041
The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organized by officers. But there was a downside: some of the soldiers' behavior was highly disruptive and, since very few private soldiers were allowed to marry, prostitution flourished. Having compiled a database of nearly 350 of Colchester's nineteenth-century prostitutes, the authors examine how they lived and operated and who their customers were.
Author : T. Crook,R. Gill,B. Taithe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230319325
Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0203104250
In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal diseases. The coercive nature of the Contagious Diseases Acts and the double standard which allowed the continuance of prostitution on the ground that the prostitute 'herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of ...
Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226081014
From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.
Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782253693
The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.
Author : Jared William Carter
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468954111
Female prostitution in England during the Victorian era was widely treated as a major social concern and issue of national public health from the 1860s to 1880s.
Author : Deborah Anna Logan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826211755
Logan's study is distinguished by its exclusive focus on women writers, including Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, Sarah Grand, and Mary Prince. Logan utilizes primary texts from these Victorian writers as well as contemporary critics such as Catherine Gallagher and Elaine Showalter to provide the background on social factors that contributed to the construction of fallen-woman discourse.
Author : Carol K. Carr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101478295
Read India Black's blog and other content on the Penguin Community. When Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies from a heart attack while visiting her brothel, Madam India Black is unexpectedly thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried. Blackmailed into recovering the missing documents by the British spy known as French, India finds herself dodging Russian agents-and the attraction she starts to feel for the handsome conspirator.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004411135
Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city streets.