The Magdalenes : Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780415623537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Linda Mahood

Opis

Building on the work of Foucault, Walkowitz, and Mort, Linda Mahood traces and examines new approached emerging throughout the 19th century towards prostitution and looks at the apparatus and institutions created for its regulation and control.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Deployment of 'Dangerous' Female Sexualities  Part 1: The Birth of Social Medicine and the State  1. 'Harlots, Witches and Bar-maids': Prostitution, Disease, and the State, 1497 – 1800  2. A Medical Model of Immorality: The Glasgow Lock Hospital  3. Familiarity with the Illicit  Part 2: Philanthropy, Piety, and the State  4. An Invitation to Discourse  5. The Domestication of 'Fallen' Women  6. Friendless, Fallen and Inebriate Women: The Transformations  Part 3: The Glasgow System: Police Repression or Veiled Regulation?  7. Fighting the 'Multitudinous Amazonian Army'  8. Police Repression or Veiled Regulation?  Conclusion: Prostitutes, Magdalenes, and Wayward Girls: Dangerous Sexualities of Working-class Women