Feminizing venereal disease : the body of the prostitute of nineteenth-century medical discourse / M...
Feminizing venereal disease : the body of the prostitute of nineteenth-century medical discourse / M...
Feminizing venereal disease : the body of the prostitute of nineteenth-century medical discourse / Mary Spongberg.
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Publisher
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997.
Date
1997.
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N616.951/22
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 231 p., 5 p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
1. The Sick Rose -- 2. The Source -- 3. Implementing the System -- 4. Resisting the Acts -- 5. The New Campaign -- 6. Pathologizing Children -- 7. Child Prostitution -- 8. The Sins of the Father -- 9. The Syphilitic as Moral Degenerate -- 10. Trapped in a Woman's Body? The Persistence of Feminine Pa...
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Publisher
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
Feminizing Venereal Disease traces the medicalization of the prostitute as a symbolic source of social disease - the ordinary sick body - of Victorian England. In doing so it presents a forceful argument about the gendering of nineteenth-century medicine, drawing out the inter-relationship between concepts of femininity, public health regulations a...
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Feminizing venereal disease : the body of the prostitute of nineteenth-century medical discourse / Mary Spongberg.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N616.951/22
Record Identifier
74VMjxAqwqLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMjxAqwqLX
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ISBN
0333639235
9780333639245 (pbk)
0333639243 (pbk)
9780333639238
DDC
616.951009034
MMS ID
991001260919702626
