Prostitution and Victorian society : women, class, and the state / Judith R. Walkowitz.
"The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869, 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 authoritie...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1980.
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| Summary: | "The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869, 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. This book 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."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 347 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-335) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521270642 0521223342 9780521223348 9780521270649 |