Prostitution And The Victorians
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Author | : Trevor Fisher |
Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Fascinating excerpts from newspapers, journals, diaries, and letters show that although prostitution was widespread in Victorian Britain, it was not altogether considerd amoral.
Author | : Judith R. Walkowitz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1982-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521270649 |
A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Author | : Dr Paula Bartley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134610718 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780750911252 |
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 | : Nina Attwood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317324242 |
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.
Author | : Paul McHugh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136247769 |
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 | : Lesley A. Hall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137292687 |
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.
Author | : T. Crook |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230319327 |
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 | : Stephen Garton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317489012 |
This book presents the first assessment of one of the most rapidly expanding fields of research: the history of sexuality. From the early efforts of historians to work out a model for sexual history, to the extraordinary impact of French philosopher Michel Foucault, to the vigorous debates about essentialism and social constructionism, to the emergence of contemporary debates about historicism, queer theory, embodiment, gender and cultural history - we now have vast and diverse historical scholarship on sex and sexuality. 'Histories of Sexuality' highlights the key historical moments and issues: pederasty and cultures of male passivity in ancient Greece and Rome; the impact of early Christianity and ideals of renunciation on the sexual cultures of late antiquity; the sustained existence of homosexual cultures in medieval and renaissance Europe; the "invention" of homosexuality and heterosexuality in eighteenth century Europe and America; the truth behind Victorian sexual repression; the work of reformers and scientists such as Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, Stella Browne, Margaret Sanger, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters and Virginia Johnson.
Author | : Deborah Lutz |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2011-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393080676 |
A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London. At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his only copy of a manuscript of his poems from her coffin. Legendary explorer Richard Burton wrote how-to manuals on sex positions and livened up the drawing room with stories of eroticism in the Middle East. Algernon Charles Swinburne visited flagellation brothels and wrote pornography amid his poetry. By embracing and exploring the taboo, these iconoclasts produced some of the most captivating art, literature, and ideas of their day. As thought-provoking as it is electric, Pleasure Bound unearths the desires of the men and women who challenged buttoned-up Victorian mores to promote erotic freedom. These bohemians formed two loosely overlapping societies—the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes—to explore their fascinations with sexual taboo, from homosexuality to the eroticization of death. Known as much for their flamboyant personal lives as for their controversial masterpieces, they created a scandal-provoking counterculture that paved the way for such later figures as Gustav Klimt, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Genet. In this stunning exposé of the Victorian London we thought we knew, Deborah Lutz takes us beyond the eyebrow-raising practices of these sex rebels, revealing how they uncovered troubles that ran beneath the surface of the larger social fabric: the struggle for women’s emancipation, the dissolution of formal religions, and the pressing need for new forms of sexual expression.