| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Series |
""The Body, Gender and Culture"" |
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""The Body, Gender and Culture""
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 |
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Conclusion: Countering the MythNotes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317324256 |
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1317324250 |
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