Contagious Diseases Acts - Further Reading

Further Reading

  • J. Walkowitz, ‘Prostitution and Victorian Society’
  • J. Walkowitz, ‘City of Dreadful Delight’
  • E.M Sigworth and T.J Wyke ‘A study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease’ in M. Vicinus’ ‘Suffer and Be Still’.
  • P. Levine ‘Victorian Feminism’ Chapter 6
  • The Contagious Diseases Acts in Murray, J. Strong-Minded Women, 424-37 and Fisher, Trevor.
  • Prostitution and The Victorians. 80-94. Jane Jordan
  • The Contagious Diseases Acts Reconsidered F.B. Smith. Social History of Medicine 1990 3(2) pp. 197–215.
  • Chapter 5: Syphilis between prostitution and promiscuity in Peter Baldwin. Contagion in the state of Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • Chapter 7: VD & Society in Britain, From CDA to NHS Lesley A. Hall. in Sex, Sin and Suffering: Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870 Roger Davidson and Lesley A. Hall eds. (London & New York: Routledge, 2001)
  • The Origins, Administration, and Impact of the Contagious Diseases Acts from a Military Perspective John Gill Gamble. (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1986)

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