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Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
Engelsk
Bogcover for Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform af Paul McHugh, 9780415752589
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
306
ISBN-13:
9780415752589
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415752582
Udg. Dato:
10 apr 2014
Størrelse i cm:
23,3 x 16,6 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
10 apr 2014
Forfatter(e):

Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform

Engelsk
Paperback 2014
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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.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
306
ISBN-13:
9780415752589
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415752582
Udg. Dato:
10 apr 2014
Størrelse i cm:
23,3 x 16,6 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
10 apr 2014
Forfatter(e):
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