Stories
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
Catalogue
- Books
Male vice and feminist virtue : feminism and the politics of prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain / by Judith R. Walkowitz.
Walkowitz, Judith.Date: 1982- Books
Erotic exchanges : the world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris / Nina Kushner.
Kushner, NinaDate: 2013- Books
- Online
La prostitution contemporaine : étude d'une question sociale / Léo Taxil.
Taxil, Léo, 1854-1907.Date: [1884]- Books
Sex, gender and sexual identity in modern culture : male sodomy and female prostitution in Enlightenment London / Randolph Trumbach.
Trumbach, Randolph- Books
Odd men out : male homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation, 1954-1970 / John-Pierre Joyce.
Joyce, John-PierreDate: 2019