Nina Attwood

The Prostitute's Body

Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781848930063
• ISBN-10: 1848930062
• Artikelnr.: 35602826

Autorenporträt

Nina Attwood

Inhaltsangabe

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