Account Options Connexion. Version papier du livre. Judith R. Cambridge University Press , 29 oct. The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of , and , and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Prostitution and Victorian Society makes a major contribution to women's history, working-class history, and the social history of medicine and politics. It demonstrates how feminists and others mobilized over sexual questions, how public discourse on prostitution redefined sexuality in the late nineteenth century, and how the state helped to recast definitions of social deviance.
Social science and the Great Social Evil. Venereal disease. The Contagious Diseases Acts regulationists and repealers. The Contagious Diseases Acts and their advocates. The repeal campaign. The leadership of the Ladies National Association. Class and gender conflict within the repeal movement. The repeal campaign in Plymouth and Southampton The making of an outcast group prostitutes and working women in Plymouth and Southampton. The local repeal campaign Selected bibliography. Plymouth and Southampton under the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Droits d'auteur. Walkowitz Cambridge University Press , 29 oct. The common prostitute in Victorian Britain. The hospitals.
