{"product_id":"prostitution-and-victorian-social-reform-paul-mchugh-9780415752589","title":"Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal diseases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe coercive nature of the Contagious Diseases Acts and the double standard which allowed the continuance of prostitution on the ground that the prostitute 'herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue', aroused the ire of many reformers, not only women's rights campaigners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul McHugh analyses the social composition of the different repeal and reform movements - the liberal reformists, the passionate struggle of the charismatic Josephine Butler, the Tory reformers whose achievement was in the improvement of preventative medicine, and finally the Social Purity movement of the 1880s which favoured a coercive approach. This is a fascinating study of ideals and principles in action, of pressure-group strategy, and of individual leaders in the repeal movement's sixteen year progress to victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was originally publised in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul McHugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415752582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415752589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Paul McHugh","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112898507007,"sku":"9780415752589","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b91c00a6-a8f8-42ae-ac1d-1dedf6887032.jpg?v=1769611688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prostitution-and-victorian-social-reform-paul-mchugh-9780415752589","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}