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Prostitution Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914
244 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 From sinners to Cinderellas; Chapter 1 Reform institutions; Chapter 2 Daily life inside reform institutions; Part 2 Prevention is better than cure; Chapter 3 Moral education and protective legislation; Chapter 4 ‘Wayward and troublesome girls’; Part 3 The making of the mentally deficient; Chapter 5 The background; Chapter 6 Care rather than cure; Part 4 Purifying the nation; Chapter 7 Suppressing prostitution; Chapter 8 Men and morality; conclusion Conclusion: from fin de siècleto the millennium;
Biography
Paula Bartley is senior lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton.
'Bartleys study is a very welcome addition to the historiography of moral reform and sexual regulation.' – Social History Society
'In this meticulously researched book, Paula Bartley offers the first national study of the work of moral reformers in late nineteenth-century ... her considerable achievement lies in her abilty to demonstrate that ... there is still much more to be said on the subject on nineteenth-century prostitution.' – History
'One of the stregnths of the book is its detailed analysis of the intersection of contemporary class, gender, and religious ideologies in the motives of those involved in the reform of "the fallen" ... The work also provides new insight into the day-to-day running of the range of institutions set up to deal with women deemed to be "fallen".' – Social History of Medicine
