Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform write by Paul McHugh. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform write by Paul McHugh. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Prostitution
Prostitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostitution write by Dr Paula Bartley. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Prostitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Prostitution and Victorian Society
Prostitution and Victorian Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostitution and Victorian Society write by Judith R. Walkowitz. This book was released on 1982-10-29. Prostitution and Victorian Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880
Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 write by Lesley A. Hall. This book was released on 2017-09-16. Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted under a façade of modernity. Thoroughly revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of this established text: • explores a wide range of relevant topics including marriage, homosexuality, commercial sex, media representations, censorship, sexually transmitted diseases and sex education • features an entirely new last chapter which brings the narrative right up to the present day • provides fresh insights by bringing together further original research and recent scholarship in the area. Lively and authoritative, this is an essential volume for anyone studying the history of sexual culture in Britain during a period of rapid social change.
