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Vice and vigilance : purity movements in Britain since 1700
- Title
- Vice and vigilance : purity movements in Britain since 1700 / Edward J. Bristow.
- Author
- Bristow, Edward J.
- Publication
- Dublin : Gill and Macmillan ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HN400.M6 B74 1977 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 274 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Prostitution > Great Britain > History
- Sex Work > history
- Public Policy
- Moral conditions
- Prostitution
- Social policy
- Puritanisme
- Prostitution > Great Britain > History
- Puritanisme > Grande-Bretagne
- Great Britain > Moral conditions
- Great Britain > Social policy
- Great Britain
- Great Britain > Moral conditions
- Great Britain > Social policy
- Grande-Bretagne > Conditions morales
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [257]-262.
- Contents
- The pioneers: the societies for the reformation of manners -- The Vice Society and fear of the obscene -- Repression and rescue of prostitutes, 1750-1860 -- Against the double standard: from the Contagious Diseases Act to white slavery -- The building of social purity: from Ellice Hopkins to the National Vigilance Association -- Education for chastity -- Social purity and prostitution -- The International Crusade against the White-Slave Traffic -- The pursuit of the obscene.
- ISBN
- 0847660575
- 9780847660575
- 071710821X
- 9780717108213
- LCCN
- 78323464
- OCLC
- ocm04028374
- 4028374
- SCSB-9016662
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library