The Prostitute's Body:
Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain
Nina Attwood
The Body, Gender and Culture
978 1 84893 006 3: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 007 0
For too long historians have imposed on the literature a restricted narrative of Victorian attitudes to prostitution. Instead, Attwood argues for a multifaceted, many-layered representation amongst contemporary Victorian observers, demonstrated using political, medical, feminist, literary and pornographic sources. The picture that emerges of Victorian society is complex and fluid, rather than a static stereotype.
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Readership
Women's Studies and Nineteenth-Century History
Contents
Introduction: The Great Social Evil: Representing the Victorian Prostitute
1 White-Washed Sepulchres and Wives of Englishmen: William Acton's Representation of English Prostitutes
2 From 'Masses of Rottenness' to the 'Queen's Women': The Report of the Royal Commission (1871)
3 Mothers, Sisters and Shameless Women: Josephine Butler and the Victorian Prostitute
4 Mercy and Grace: Wilkie Collins and The New Magdalen
5 My Secret Life and the Pornographic Representation of Prostitution
Conclusion: Countering the Myth
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