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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization, and charts the complex dimensions of the underground sexual economy in the modern metropolis"--
14) Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America: from northern woman to plantation mistress
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as the key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate the blood level in the female body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. In this book, Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories. Many of these literary representations show how early modern English women...
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