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Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform (Hardcover)
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Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
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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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