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The Magdalenes - Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Magdalenes - Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
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The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the
subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual
behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of,
regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer
dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded.
Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing
the body to punishing the mind. Building on the work of Foucault,
Walkowitz, and Mort, Linda Mahood traces and examines new
approached emerging throughout the nineteenth century towards
prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created
for its regulation and control. In particular, throughout the
century, the bourgeoisie contributed regularly to the discourse on
the prostitution problem, the debate focusing on the sexual and
vocational behaviour of working class women. The thrust of the
discourse, however, was not just repression or control but the
moral reform - through religious training, moral education, and
training in domestic service - of working class women. With her
emphasis on Scottish 'magdalene' homes and a case study of the
system of police repression used in Glasgow, Linda Mahood has
written the first book of its kind dealing with these issues in
Scotland. At the same time the book sets nineteenth-century
treatment of prostitutes in Scotland into the longer run of British
attempts to control 'drabs and harlots', and contributes to the
wider discussion of 'dangerous female sexuality' in a
male-dominated society.
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