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Languages : en
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Description: Includes pamphlet with "An Analysis of the Evidence in Seventy Consecutive Cases made under the New Criminal Law Amendment Act".
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Vice in Garrison Towns; Proposed Legislation
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Description: Includes pamphlet with "An Analysis of the Evidence in Seventy Consecutive Cases made under the New Criminal Law Amendment Act".
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Vagrant Act Amendment Bill, 1888-1889 (folder 1)
Author: Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Proposed Bill of 1895 to Amend Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885
Author: Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Vagrant Act Amendment Bill, 1888-1889 (folder 2)
Author: The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria
Author: Nancy M. WingfieldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192521683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or problems to be solved, as so often has been the case in much of the literature, Nancy M. Wingfield seeks to find the historical subjects behind fin-de-siècle constructions of prostitutes, to restore agency to the women who participated in commercial sex, illuminate their quotidian experiences, and to place these women, some of whom made a rational economic decision to sell their bodies, in the larger social context of late imperial Austria. Wingfield investigates the interactions of both registered and clandestine prostitutes with the vice police and other supervisory agents, including physicians and court officials, as well as with the inhabitants of these women's world, including brothel clients and madams, and pimps, rather than focusing top-down on the state-constructed apparatus of surveillance. Close reading of a broad range of primary and secondary sources shows that some prostitutes in late imperial Austria took control over their own fates, at least as much as other working-class women, in the last decades before the end of the Monarchy. And after 1918, bureaucratic transition did not necessarily parallel political transition. Thus, there was no dramatic change in the regulation of prostitution in the successor states. Legislation, which changed regulation only piecemeal after the war, often continued to incorporate forms of control, reflecting continuity in attitudes about women's sexuality.
The Age of Decadence
Author: Simon HefferPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain commanded a vast empire: she bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamed of and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence can be seen in Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V’s coronation, and London’s great Edwardian palaces. Yet beneath the surface things were very different In The Age of Decadence, Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation’s massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century’s gravest constitutional crisis—and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists’ public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press, and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the nostalgia of A. E. Housman.
A New England?
Author: G. R. SearlePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199284407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 991
Book Description
G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.
Roads to Ruin
Author: E. S. TurnerPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571290264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
'It is a salutary thing to look back at some of the reforms which have long been an accepted part of our life, and to examine the opposition, usually bitter and often bizarre, sometimes dishonest but all too often honest, which had to be countered by the restless advocates of 'grandmotherly' legislation...' Contemporary readers of a progressive bent may like to think it elementary that certain inhumane practices in which Britons indulged pre-1800 came to be abolished. But as E.S. Turner reveals, our history is littered with Colonel Blimp figures, of a mind that 'reforms are all right as long as they don't change anything.' ' Roads to Ruin still entertains and appals. It chronicles the disgraceful rearguard action of the upper classes against the introduction of the Plimsoll line, the abolition of child chimney sweeps and the repeal of laws under which convicted criminals could be hung, drawn and quartered...' Jonathan Sale, Guardian
Feminism
Author: June HannamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317861078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The sheer number of publications on Feminism make it difficult for students who approach the subject for the first time to gain a sense of what the main issues and interpretations are. This book addresses this by offering students an overview of feminism and its history across several countries and time periods, along with an annotated guide to direct them in their further reading. Feminism by June Hannam provides comprehensive coverage right from how feminists began to write the history of their movement as early as the late nineteenth century to the impact feminism has had on higher education. The text also looks in depth at propaganda and the cult of the heroine in suffrage campaigning and how ‘first wave’ feminists constructed their own history which then affected future generations of historians, and activists.
Medical Record
Author: George Frederick ShradyPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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