Patron Saint of Prostitutes: Josephine Butler and a Victorian Scandal by Helen Mathers

Patron Saint of Prostitutes: Josephine Butler and a Victorian Scandal

Helen Mathers

256 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The 'steel rape' of women is a scandal that is almost forgotten today. In Victorian England, police forces were granted powers to force any woman they suspected of being a 'common prostitute' to undergo compulsory and invasive medical examinations...

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