ABSTRACT
First published in 1987. From the 1870's to the 1920's, feminists actively campaigned against men's sexual abuse of women. This collection brings together the major articles which fuelled the feminist campaigns and helped to bring about significant reforms.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|65 pages
Male Doctors on Sexuality
chapter 1|16 pages
Isaac Baker Brown
from On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy and Hysteria in Females (1866)
chapter 2|15 pages
Issac Baker Brown
from On Some Diseases of Woman Admitting Surgical Treatment (1866)
chapter 3|15 pages
William Acton
from Prostitution Considered in its Social and Sanitary Aspects (1870)
part 2|142 pages
Feminist Campaigns around Sexuality A Prostitution
chapter 5|14 pages
Harriet Martineau
The Contagious Diseases Acts as Applied to Garrison Towns and Naval Stations (1863)
chapter 8|40 pages
Josephine Butler
An Appeal to the People of England on the Recognitionand Superintendence of Prostitution by Governments (1870)
chapter 9|19 pages
Josephine Butler
Letter to my Countrywomen, Dwelling in the Farmsteadsand Cottages of England (1871)
chapter 11|1 pages
Theassociation formoral and social hygiene
Founded byjosephine butler 1870 Objects:
part 2b|62 pages
B Domestic Violence
part 2c|58 pages
C Suffrage and Sexuality
chapter 26|38 pages
Elizabeth Blackwell
from The Moral Education of the Young in Relation to Sex (1879)