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Prostitution and Victorian society: women, class, and the state

Walkowitz, Judith R.

Year: 1980.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Introduction: The revolt of the women

PART I Prostitution, social science, and venereal disease

1 The common prostitute in Victorian Britain

2 Social science and the Great Social Evil

3 Venereal disease

PART II The Contagious Diseases Acts, regulationists, and repealers

4 The Contagious Diseases Acts and their advocates

5 The repeal campaign

6 The leadership of the Ladies' National Association

7 Class and gender confict within the repeal movement

PART III Two case studies: Plymouth and Southampton under the Contagious Diseases Acts

8 Plymouth and Southampton under the Contagious Diseases Acts

9 The repeal campaign in Plymouth and Southampton, 1870-4

10 The making of an outcast group: prostitutes and working women in Plymouth and Southampton

11 The hospitals

12 The local repeal campaign, 1874 -86

Epilog

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index

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Title:

Prostitution and Victorian society : women, class, and the state Judith R. Walkowitz.

Author:

Walkowitz, Judith R

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Prostitution and Victorian society : women, class, and the state Judith R. Walkowitz.
Walkowitz, Judith R
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

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Subject Headings:

• Sexually transmitted diseases -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Sexually transmitted diseases -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Prostitution -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

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