Attitudes to sexuality and prostitution
2. What was the significance of the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts?
3. Was there a change in sexual attitudes at the end of the nineteenth century?
4. To what extent did women gain increased control over their sexuality and reproductive functions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
5. How far was class an issue in women's experience of sexuality?
Core Reading
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists, ch. 5
Hall, Lesley A. Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880, especially chs. 1-4
Jeffreys, Sheila. 'Women and Sexuality' in Purvis (ed), Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945
Prostitution
Mahood, Lesley. The Magdalenes. Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century
Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexuality, pp. 72-103
Bartley, Paula. 'Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England', Journal of Social History (2000)
Sigsworth, E. M. and Wyke, T. J. 'A Study of Victorian Prostitution' in Vicinus (ed), Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age
Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight, ch. 3
Contagious Diseases Acts
Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast. English Feminism and Sexual Morality, 1884-1914
Burden, A. M. 'The White Woman's Burden' in Chaudhuri and Strobel (eds), Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
Kingsley Kent, Susan. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, ch. 2
Summers, A. 'The Constitution Violated: the Female Body and the Female Subject in the Campaigns of Josephine Butler', History Workshop Journal, 48 (1999)
Walkowitz, Judith R. 'Male Vice and Feminist Virtue', History Workshop Journal (1982)
Reproduction
Davin, Anna. 'Imperialism and Motherhood', History Workshop Journal, 5 (1978)
Digby, Anne. 'Women's Biological Straitjacket' in Mendus and Rendall (eds), Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century
Jalland, Patricia. Women, Marriage and Politics, 1860-1914, Part II
Lewis, J. Labour and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940
Marland, Hilary. Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain, chs. 1, 5, 6
McLaren, A. Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England
Violence
Clarke, Anna. Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assault in England, 1770-1845
D'Cruze, Shani. Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women
D'Cruze, Shani. Everyday Violence in Britain, 1850-1950: Gender and Class
Hamilton, S. 'Making History with Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Domestic Violence and the Language of Imperialism', Victorian Studies, 43, 3 (2001)