Beginnings of the feminist struggle against prostitution: politics of redefinition and activism within British suffragism
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https://doi.org/10.18172/brocar.1609Keywords:
Prostitution, abolitionism, woman’s suffrage, Josephine Butler, John Stuart Mill,Abstract
This paper analyzes the beginnings of the process to delegitimize the set of ideas and beliefs that present prostitution as a normal and natural reality or as the lesser evil, within the context of the British Woman’s Suffrage movement. On one hand, the genealogy of critical ideas involved in establishing the basis to delegitimize the traditional view of prostitution and the building of a new feminist framework of interpretation, is reconstructed. On the other hand, the emergence and development of the abolitionist movement and some of its main strategies and achievements are analyzed: rising the age of consent up to 16 and ending the parliamentary attempts to regulate a market of female prostitutionDownloads
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2011-06-24
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Miguel Alvarez, A. de, & Palomo Cermeño, E. (2011). Beginnings of the feminist struggle against prostitution: politics of redefinition and activism within British suffragism. Brocar. Cuadernos De Investigación Histórica, (35), 315–334. https://doi.org/10.18172/brocar.1609
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