The Great Social Evil: Its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies

The Great Social Evil: Its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies
Title The Great Social Evil: Its Causes, Extent, Results, and Remedies PDF eBook
Author William LOGAN (of Glasgow.)
Publisher
Pages 254
Release 1871
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The great social evil

The great social evil
Title The great social evil PDF eBook
Author William Logan
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Pages 264
Release 1871
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The Magdalenes

The Magdalenes
Title The Magdalenes PDF eBook
Author Linda Mahood
Publisher Routledge
Pages 196
Release 2013-06-26
Genre History
ISBN 1136247823

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The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded. Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing the body to punishing the mind. Building on the work of Foucault, Walkowitz, and Mort, Linda Mahood traces and examines new approached emerging throughout the nineteenth century towards prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created for its regulation and control. In particular, throughout the century, the bourgeoisie contributed regularly to the discourse on the prostitution problem, the debate focusing on the sexual and vocational behaviour of working class women. The thrust of the discourse, however, was not just repression or control but the moral reform – through religious training, moral education, and training in domestic service – of working class women. With her emphasis on Scottish 'magdalene' homes and a case study of the system of police repression used in Glasgow, Linda Mahood has written the first book of its kind dealing with these issues in Scotland. At the same time the book sets nineteenth-century treatment of prostitutes in Scotland into the longer run of British attempts to control 'drabs and harlots', and contributes to the wider discussion of 'dangerous female sexuality' in a male-dominated society.

The Prostitute's Body

The Prostitute's Body
Title The Prostitute's Body PDF eBook
Author Nina Attwood
Publisher Routledge
Pages 236
Release 2015-10-06
Genre History
ISBN 1317324242

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Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.

The Preacher's Lantern

The Preacher's Lantern
Title The Preacher's Lantern PDF eBook
Author Anonymous
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 766
Release 2023-02-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3382112159

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Acts of Desire

Acts of Desire
Title Acts of Desire PDF eBook
Author Sos Eltis
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 281
Release 2013-04-18
Genre Drama
ISBN 0191653063

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From seduced maidens to adulterous wives, bigamists, courtesans, kept women and streetwalkers, the so-called 'fallen woman' was a ubiquitous and enduring figure on the Victorian and Edwardian stage. Acts of Desire traces the theatrical representation of illicit female sexuality from early nineteenth-century melodramas, through sensation dramas, Ibsenite sex-problem plays and suffrage dramas, to early social realism and the well-made plays of Pinero, Jones, Maugham, and Coward. This study reveals and analyses enduring plot lines and tropes that continue to influence contemporary theatre and film. Women's illicit desires became a theatrical focus for anxieties and debates surrounding gender roles, women's rights, sexual morality, class conflict, economics, eugenics, and female employment. The theatre played a central role in both establishing and challenging sexual norms, and many playwrights exploited the ambiguities and implications of performance to stage disruptive spectacles of female desire, agency, energy, and resourcefulness, using ingenuity and skill to evade the control of that ever watchful state censor, the Lord Chamberlain. Covering an astonishing range of theatrical, social, literary, and political texts, this study challenges the currency and validity of the long-established critical term 'the fallen woman', and establishes the centrality of the theatre to cultural and sexual debates throughout the period. Acts of Desire encompasses published and unpublished plays, archival material, censorship records, and contemporary reviews to reveal the surprising continuities, complex debates, covert meanings, and exuberant spectacles which marked the history of theatrical representations of female sexuality. Engaging with popular and 'high art' performances, this study also reveals the vital connections between theatre and its sister arts, tracing the exchange of influences between Victorian drama, narrative painting and the novel, and showing theatre to be a crucial but neglected element in the cultural history of women's sexuality.

Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Statistical Society

Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Statistical Society
Title Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Statistical Society PDF eBook
Author Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher
Pages 308
Release 1921
Genre Great Britain
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