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The Prostitute’s Body Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain

  • Published: 6 Oct 2015
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781315656168
  • Print ISBN: 9781848930063
  • eBook ISBN: 9781315656168

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

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction: ‘The Great Social Evil’ – Representing the Victorian Prostitute
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    1
    White-Washed Sepulchres and Wives of Englishmen: William Acton’s Representation of English Prostitutes
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    2
    From ‘Masses of Rottenness’ to the ‘Queen’s Women’: The Report of the Royal Commission (1871)
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    3
    Mothers, Sisters and Shameless Women: Josephine Butler and the Victorian Prostitute
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    4
    Mercy and Grace: Wilkie Collins and the New Magdalen
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    5
    My Secret Life and the Pornographic Representation of Prostitution
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    Conclusion: Countering the Myth
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    Back Matter