Artikel
"Abandoned women and bad characters" : prostitution in nineteenth-century Ireland
Verfasst von:
Luddy, Maria
in:
Women's history review
Wallingford:
1997
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485 - 503 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Luddy, Maria |
| In: | Women's history review |
| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines the extent of prostitution in nineteenth-century Ireland. It centres on the problem of prostitution as one of visibility and the prostitute as a site of possible contagion, both physical and moral. The legal powers given to the police to control prostitution wer used when prostitution became a particular problem and the focus of public and clerical condemmnation. However, for the public prostitution was most acceptable when it was hidden from public view. Attempts to rescue and reform prostitutes came from lay and religious women in particular. The establishment of Magdalen Asylums offered the Irish public a place of confinement of their "waywar" daughters, placing them away from the public gaze. Examining the registers of these asylums reveals that "fallen women" were capable of using these institutions for their own ends, particularly in the nineteenth century. The decline in prostitution evident in Ireland from the 1870s owned much to the new "morality" being imposed on the Irish people by the middle classes and the Catholic church. | |
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