Abstract

Preface Introduction Part I. Prostitution, Social Science and Venereal Disease: 1. The common prostitute in Victorian Britain 2. Social science and the great social evil 3. Venereal disease Part II. The Contagious Diseases Acts, Regulationists and Repealers: 4. The Contagious Diseases Acts and their advocates 5. The repeal campaign 6. The leadership of the Ladies' National Association 7. Class and gender conflict within the repeal movement Part III. Two Case Studies: Plymouth and Southampton under the Contagious Diseases Acts: 8. Plymouth and Southampton under the Contagious Diseases Acts 9. The repeal campaign in Plymouth and Southampton 1870-4 10. The making of an outcast group: prostitutes and working women in Plymouth and Southampton 11. The hospitals 12. The local repeal campaign, 1874-86 Epilog Notes Selected bibliography Index.

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