Prostitution

<p><em>Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England 1860-1914</em> is the first comprehensive overview of attempts to eradicate prostitution from English society including discussion of early attempts at reform and prevention through to the campaigns of the social purists.<br><em>Prostitution</em> looks in depth at the various reform institutions which were set up to house prostitutes analysing the motives of the reformers as well as daily life within these penitentiaries.<br>This indispensable book reveals:<br>* reformers' attitudes towards prostitutes and prostitution * daily life inside reform institutions<br>* attempts at moral education<br>* developments in moral health theories<br>* influence of eugenics<br>* attempts at suppressing prostitution.</p>