Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914Psychology Press, 2000 - 229 pages Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 is the first comprehensive overview of attempts to eradicate prostitution from English society, including discussion of early attempts at reform and prevention through to the campaigns of the social purists. Prostitution looks in depth at the various reform institutions which were set up to house prostitutes, analysing the motives of the reformers as well as daily life within these penitentiaries. This indispensable book reveals: * reformers' attitudes towards prostitutes and prostitution * daily life inside reform institutions * attempts at moral education * developments in moral health theories * influence of eugenics * attempts at suppressing prostitution. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Reform institutions | 25 |
Daily life inside reform institutions | 46 |
Moral education and protective legislation | 73 |
Wayward and troublesome girls | 94 |
The background | 119 |
Care rather than cure | 137 |
Suppressing prostitution | 155 |
Men and morality | 178 |
from fin de siècle to the millennium | 197 |
major laws concerning prostitution | 202 |
Bibliography | 203 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 Paula Bartley Aucun aperçu disponible - 2000 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Agatha Stacey Anon argued behaviour believed Birmingham BMCVA Occasional Paper Bramwell Booth brothels child child sexual abuse Church of England CLA Act Committee considered Contagious Diseases Acts domestic servants domestic service Education Ellen Pinsent Ellice Hopkins Eugenics eugenists feeble-minded Female Penitentiary Annual feminist Frank Mort Friendless Girls Annual gender Girls Annual Report House of Mercy Ibid immoral indecent inmates laundry Leeds Ladies Linda Mahood Liverpool Liverpool Female Penitentiary Magdalen Asylum managers matron MEPO Metropolitan Police Minute Book nineteenth century Nottingham NUWW Conference NUWW Quarterly Magazine organisations Oxford Patricia Hollis Penitentiary Annual Report penitents preventive Promoting prosecuted prostitution Protection of Friendless Protection of Young reform institutions reform of prostitutes Reformatory Revd Royal Commission 1908 Seeking and Saving Sheila Jeffreys single mothers social purists social purity movement Southwell Diocesan Magazine Southwell House streets thought tutions Union Vigilance Record White Cross White Slave workhouse working-class women young girls young women