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Book An exposure     of female prostitution in London  Leeds and Rochdale and especially     Glasgow

Download or read book An exposure of female prostitution in London Leeds and Rochdale and especially Glasgow written by William Logan and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Exposure  from Personal Observation  of Female Prostitution in London  Leeds and Rochdale  and Especially in the City of Glasgow

Download or read book An Exposure from Personal Observation of Female Prostitution in London Leeds and Rochdale and Especially in the City of Glasgow written by William Logan and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Magdalenes

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  • Author : Linda Mahood
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-06-26
  • ISBN : 1136247831
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The Magdalenes written by Linda Mahood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Prostitute s Body

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  • Author : Nina Attwood
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-10-06
  • ISBN : 1317324250
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Prostitute s Body written by Nina Attwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.

Book The Routledge History of Sex and the Body

Download or read book The Routledge History of Sex and the Body written by Sarah Toulalan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book examines the current scholarship and looks towards future directions across the field. The volume is divided into fourteen thematic chapters, which are split into two chronological sections 1500 – 1750 and 1750 to present day. Focusing on the history of sexuality and the body in the West but also interactions with a broader globe, these thematic chapters survey the major areas of debate and discussion. Covering themes such as science, identity, the gaze, courtship, reproduction, sexual violence and the importance of race, the volume offers a comprehensive view of the history of sex and the body. The book concludes with an afterword in which the reader is invited to consider some of the ‘tensions, problems and areas deserving further scrutiny’. Including contributors renowned in their field of expertise, this ground-breaking collection is essential reading for all those interested in the history of sexuality and the body.

Book Tracing Your Female Ancestors

Download or read book Tracing Your Female Ancestors written by Adéle Emm and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple, easy-to-use guide for British family historians wishing to trace their female ancestry. Everyone has a mother and a line of female ancestors, and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, accessible handbook is of such value, for it explores the lives of female ancestors from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the beginning of the First World War. In 1815, a woman was the chattel of her husband; by 1914, when the menfolk were embarking on one of the most disastrous wars ever known, the women at home were taking on jobs and responsibilities never before imagined. Adèle Emm’s work is the ideal introduction to the role of women during this period of dramatic social change. Chapters cover the quintessential experiences of birth, marriage, and death; a woman’s working and daily life, both middle and working class; through to crime and punishment, the acquisition of an education and the fight for equality. Each chapter gives advice on where further resources, archives, wills, newspapers, and websites can be found, with plentiful common-sense advice on how to use them. “A unique and information packed instructional reference and guide, Tracing Your Female Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians is an extraordinary and thoroughly user friendly manual that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Genealogy collections and supplemental studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review

Book History of Drinking

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  • Author : Anthony Cooke
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-19
  • ISBN : 1474407366
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book History of Drinking written by Anthony Cooke and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels. Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year. These and other historical issues such as temperance, together with contemporary issues, like the liberalization of licensing laws and the changing nature of Scottish pubs, are discussed in this fascinating book. The book is bought up to the present day by a case study of present day licensees, based on interviews with a range of licensees across Scotland, looking at their experience of the trade and how it has changed in their working lives.

Book Sexual progressives

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  • Author : Tanya Cheadle
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 1526125277
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Sexual progressives written by Tanya Cheadle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of the Victorian period. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, it provides the first group portrait of Scotland’s hitherto neglected sexual rebels. They include Bella and Charles Pearce, prominent Glasgow socialists and disciples of an American-based mystic who taught that religion needed ‘re-sexed’; Jane Hume Clapperton, a feminist freethinker with advanced views on birth-control and women’s right to sexual pleasure; and Patrick Geddes, founder of an avant-garde Edinburgh subculture and co-author of an influential scientific book on sex. A consideration of their lives and work forces a reappraisal of our understanding of British sexual progressivism during this period and will therefore be of interest to all historians of modern gender and sexuality.

Book A Curious History of Sex

Download or read book A Curious History of Sex written by Kate Lister and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless. The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from. Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister’s extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Kate unashamedly roots around in the pants of history, debunking myths, challenging stereotypes and generally getting her hands dirty. This fascinating book is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang, and illustrated with eye-opening, toe-curling and meticulously sourced images from the past. You will laugh, you will wince and you will wonder just how much has actually changed.

Book Sex at the Margins

Download or read book Sex at the Margins written by Laura María Agustín and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Agustín presents an analysis of the position prostitutes occupy within the global economy.

Book Sex at the Margins

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  • Author : Laura María Agustin
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2008-02-29
  • ISBN : 1848130813
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Sex at the Margins written by Laura María Agustin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustín, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry. Although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice.

Book A History of Prostitution

Download or read book A History of Prostitution written by George Ryley Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scientific survey of history of prostitution from antiquity to the twentieth century is one of the first comprehensive studies of this sociological phenomenon of our time. George Ryley Scott writes this treatise in reaction to the lack of literature on the subject at this time, dismissing the only volumes available as outdated, fragmentary or prejudiced- as they were often sponsored by reformist groups. Thus, Scott presents us with a refreshingly honest and nonbiased view of prostitution as it was throughout history up until its first publishing in 1936.

Book Love in the Time of Victoria

Download or read book Love in the Time of Victoria written by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes.

Book The Wesleyan methodist association magazine

Download or read book The Wesleyan methodist association magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Actresses and Whores

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  • Author : Kirsten Pullen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-02-17
  • ISBN : 9780521541022
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Actresses and Whores written by Kirsten Pullen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description