Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State by Judith R. Walkowitz

Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State

Judith R. Walkowitz

360 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and femin...

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