Prostitution In Victorian Colchester

Author : Jane Pearson,Maria Rayner
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912260041

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Prostitution in Victorian Colchester by Jane Pearson,Maria Rayner Pdf

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 : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521270642

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Prostitution and Victorian Society by Judith R. Walkowitz Pdf

A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.

Author : Paul McHugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247767

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Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform by Paul McHugh Pdf

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 : Susan Woodall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031405716

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Material Setting and Reform Experience in English Institutions for Fallen Women, 1838-1910 by Susan Woodall Pdf

Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women reflected their moral purpose and shaped the lived experience of their inmates. Variously known as asylums, refuges, magdalens, penitentiaries, Houses or Homes of Mercy, the goal of such institutions was the moral ‘rehabilitation’ of unmarried but sexually experienced ‘fallen’ women. Largely from the working-classes, such women – some of whom had been sex workers – were represented in contradictory terms. Morally tainted and a potential threat to respectable family life, they were also worthy of pity and in need of ‘saving’ from further sin. Fuelled by rising prostitution rates, from the early decades of the nineteenth century the number of moral reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women expanded across Britain and Ireland. Through a programme of laundry, sewing work and regular religious instruction, the period of institutionalisation and moral re-education of around two years was designed to bring about a change in behaviour, readying inmates for economic self-sufficiency and re-entry into society in respectable domestic service. To achieve their goal, institutional authorities deployed an array of ritual, material, religious and disciplinary tools, with mixed results.

Author : Pam Inder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350060913

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Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid by Pam Inder Pdf

The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers. Exploring the lives of dressmakers in fact and fiction, the book looks at representations of the trade in the plays and novels of the time, while surveying the often harsh realities of the workers' lives. From the arrival of the sewing machine to the influence of the department store, it explores the impact of mechanization, commercialization and modernity on a historical trade. Pamela Inder illuminates a new world of dressmaking enabled by goods like paper patterns and magazines, and sets out to investigate the increasing monopoly of female dressmakers in an industry once dominated by male tailors. Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources – including business records, diaries, letters, bills and newspaper articles – Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid reveals the untold story of the dressmaking trade. Beautifully illustrated with over 80 images, the book brings dressmakers into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.

Author : Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015369

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In Their Own Write by Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore Pdf

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.

Author : Lynn MacKay
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837650552

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Women and the British Army, 1815-1880 by Lynn MacKay Pdf

This book explores the world of women who married, or dealt with British soldiers below the rank of officer during the nineteenth century, including fiancées, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters, as well as the prostitutes they consorted with. It examines women's experiences over the time cycle of a soldier's service. It considers women's finances, how they struggled to make ends meet and how they appealed to the government for support, including in widowhood and after a soldier's service had been completed. It discusses how soldiers' women were viewed in the press, in literature and in society more widely, highlighting in particular issues concerning morality and independence, and outlines how the Crimean War and its aftermath brought about extensive army reforms and also a sharp revision of the reputation of soldiers' wives. The book includes an exploration of soldiers' relations with prostitutes and how prostitutes were regulated, and a consideration of the impact on soldiers' wives of physical arrangements such as barracks, and overall provides much insight into the nature of plebeian life in the nineteenth century. The women portrayed often emerge as exceptionally resolute, independent and canny.

Author : Dr Paula Bartley,Paula Bartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134610716

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Prostitution by Dr Paula Bartley,Paula Bartley Pdf

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 : Luise White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226895000

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The Comforts of Home by Luise White Pdf

"This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."—Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies "White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history, political economy, and gender studies. It is a book that deserves to be widely read."—Elizabeth Schmidt, American Historical Review

Author : Shani D'Cruze,Louise A. Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137057204

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Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 by Shani D'Cruze,Louise A. Jackson Pdf

Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of 'respectable' and 'deviant' femininities over the last 4 centuries. Major issues include: - Attitudes towards murder and infanticide - Prostitution - The decline of witchcraft belief - Sexual violence - The 'girl delinquent' - Theft and fraud. The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time. Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.

Author : Keith Nield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037055394

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Prostitution in the Victorian Age by Keith Nield Pdf

Author : Helen Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315318004

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Women and the People by Helen Rogers Pdf

Based on extensive new research investigating the range of women’s involvement in early nineteenth-century popular politics, mid-Victorian reform and the women’s movements of the late century, Women and the People makes an original intervention in the historiography of the radical tradition by exploring the interconnections of populism, liberalism and feminism. Attending to authorship, the study argues that the representational forms adopted by radicals were as important as the content of what they said in shaping their self-perception, their construction of others, and the reception of their ideas. In fiction, poetry and autobiography, as well as in political writing, speeches and journalism, women reworked radical conventions and imagined new models of political identity, participation and authority. Though, in general, radicals appealed to ’the people’, women were often positioned as the suffering objects of reform rather than as the agents of change. By showing how they challenged or reinforced these conceptions of ’women’ and ’the people’, the book contends that radical women invoked alternative communities of sex, class and nation, and helped to remake and discipline the political sphere, as they strove to make it their own.

Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Newton Abbot : David and Charles
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037094211

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The Age of Consent: Victorian Prostitution and Its Enemies by Michael Pearson Pdf

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 : Philippa Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135945015

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Prostitution, Race and Politics by Philippa Levine Pdf

In addition to shouldering the blame for the increasing incidence of venereal disease among sailors and soldiers, prostitutes throughout the British Empire also bore the burden of the contagious diseases ordinances that the British government passed. By studying how British authorities enforced these laws in four colonial sites between the 1860s and the end of the First World War, Philippa Levine reveals how myths and prejudices about the sexual practices of colonized peoples not only had a direct and often punishing effect on how the laws operated, but how they also further justified the distinction between the colonizer and the colonized.

Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191533860

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Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain by Peter Mandler Pdf

Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book explores the truth of that assumption and what it might mean. It considers what the Victorian State did or did not do, what were the prevailing definitions and practices of 'liberty', what other sources of discipline and authority existed beyond the State to structure people's lives - in sum, what were the broad conditions under which such a profound belief in 'liberty' could flourish, and a complex society be run on those principles. Contributors include leading scholars in British political, social and cultural history, so that 'liberty' is seen in the round, not just as a set of ideas or of political slogans, but also as a public and private philosophy that structured everyday life. Consideration is also given to the full range of British subjects in the nineteenth century - men, women, people of all classes, from all parts of the British Isles - and to placing the British experience in a global and comparative perspective.