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Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:827094601
Author : Nina Attwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317324249
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.
Author : Paul McHugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Dr Paula Bartley,Paula Bartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Trevor Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Maria Luddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521709057
The first book to tackle the controversial history of prostitution in modern Ireland.
Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Newton Abbot : David and Charles
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037094211
Victorian society -divided by rigid class barriers, obsessed with a puritan conscience, in the midst of industralisation and poverty -was in 1885 confronted by a sustained attack on the organisers of prostitution in Britain and continental Europe. A "douvle standard" of morality prevailed, and prostitution was on the wholde condoned by the establisment. Josephine Butler rejected the double standard and demanded continence from both sexes. The Salvation Army, Methodists and the Quakers joined in, and William Stead, in the influential Pall Mall Gazette, conducted an exposé of London prostitution and the whole slave traffic to the continent. In this lively and perceptive study, Michael Pearson describes one of the seamier sides of Victorian life -the brothels, the characters who frequented or ran them, corrupt policement, indifferent politicians. Here also is the story of the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement, of the crusading Booth family, and of a skilful but unscrupulous journalist who vigorously campaigned for legal reform. -4e de couv.
Author : Trevor Fisher
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Jane Pearson,Maria Rayner
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415534097
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 : T. Crook,R. Gill,B. Taithe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Michel Faber
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443401586
One of the most talked-about novels of the year, this international bestseller gives new meaning to the term “unputdownable.” Reviewers and readers everywhere have been eagerly abandoning their everyday lives for days and even weeks on end, refusing to leave Michel Faber’s vividly realized fictional world. They are captivated by Sugar, an enigmatic nineteen-year-old prostitute whose story begins in a hellish nineteenth-century London brothel. Struggling to lift her body and soul out of the gutter, Sugar claws her way up the social ladder to gain refuge in the wealthy family of her besotted lover, William Rackham, unwilling heir to a perfumery. Now in the popular Perennial format, The Crimson Petal and the White is a gripping tale, extraordinarily rich, intricate and intoxicating to the final page.
Author : Drew D. Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441119292
In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is an important book for those interested in the history of Victorian Britain.