A review by charliebenwah
The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain by Nina Attwood

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

I am currently doing research regarding the Contagious Diseases Acts, and that is why I picked up Attwood's book in the first place. I think that had an argument that is very important to understand not only the concept of sex work itself, but to better understand the Victorian era. History has been divided up into all of these sections that are taught and seen as static in values and beliefs, but that is simply not the case. We could never define now as one dominant way of life or event, so why should history be viewed that way at all?