The London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century. Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform

Título:
The London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century. Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform
Autor:
Romero Ruiz, Maria Isabel
Materia:
History; Europe; Great Britain
Editor:
Peter Lang
Descripción:
Based on archival research, this book is concerned with the treatment of «fallen women» and prostitutes at the London Lock Hospital and Asylum throughout the nineteenth century. As venereally-diseased women, they were treated in the hospital for their physical ailments. Those considered ripe for reform were secluded in the asylum for a moral cure.
Identificadores:
E-ISBN: 9783035306170
Colección:
Peter Lang