Full Description
A series of sensational articles on child prostitution appearing in the Pall Mall gazette in 1885 produced such universal outrage that the age of consent was soon raised from 13 to 16 by act of parliament. This is the starting point for this insightful examination of the ideas and activities of feminists around issues of sex and morality up to the end of World War I.
Contents
Part 1 Debating and defining the termsdefined. Part 2 Purifying the public and private - women as moral agents of change: "purifying" the public world - feminist vigilantes, prostitution and "protective surveillance"; marriage - its iniquities and its alternatives. Part 3 The politics of fertility control and sex: contraception, feminism and the Malthusian League; eugenics, the politics of selective breeding and feminist appropriation; speaking of sex.
