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Town and gown prostitution : Cambridge's architecture of containment of sexual deviance / Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

Romero Ruiz, Maria Isabel [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Wien : Peter Lang, [2022]

172 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Romero Ruiz, Maria Isabel : Town and gown prostitution. - Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-78997-789-9 (paperback)

978-1-78997-790-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-78997-791-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-78997-790-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2022024219

OCoLC: 1348181066     

MS 2880  | NW 8100      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ186.C46

*Cambridge ; Prostitution ; Amoral ; Disziplinierung ; Ideologie ; Einrichtung ; Geschichte 1800-1900     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Prostitution -- England -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century ; Women -- Sexual behavior -- England -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century ; Cambridge (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century

Introduction: Prostitution and Victorian Cambridge -- Suppressing Vice: Cambridge University Spinning House -- 'Fallen Women''s Makeshift Economy: The Cambridge Poor-Law Union Workhouse -- Prostitutes' Crimes and Petty Offences: the Cambridge Gaols -- Domesticating 'the Fallen': The Cambridge Female Refuge -- Afterword.

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"This book is an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and regulation of promiscuity and venereal disease. Among archival sources are the Cambridge Union Workhouse, the Cambridge Female Refuge, the Spinning House (Cambridge University Female Prison) and the town and county jails. In addition, data from the census and local and state regulations are of relevance in this approach to the study of the "Great Social Evil" and its consequences for Victorian Cambridge. The city was divided into "town and gown" at the time, with the University having its power and regulation over all its premises through the Vice-Chancellor's Court and its system of proctors, while the town council regulated the areas belonging to the city itself through the police. University authorities, evangelicals and the middle classes united in their efforts to put an end to immorality, building a Cambridge architecture of containment of sexual deviance"--

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