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Victorian Prostitution

Victorian Prostitution is a historical sociocultural phenomenon denoting the regulated and often clandestine commercial exchange of sexual services in 19th-century Britain, distinguished by its entanglement with Victorian moral ideology, gendered class structures, and state surveillance of public hygiene and female sexuality.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State

Barbara Penny Kanner, Judith R. Walkowitz · The American Historical Review · 1981 · 652 citations

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Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age

R. J. Helmstadter, Martha Vicinus · The American Historical Review · 1973 · 279 citations

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Ouch!

Jo Doezema · Feminist Review · 2001 · 264 citations

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Prostitution and Victorian Society

Lorna Duffin, Judith R. Walkowitz, P. G. McHugh · British Journal of Law and Society · 1981 · 160 citations

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Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State

Leslie Fishbein, Judith R. Walkowitz · Social Science History · 1983 · 113 citations

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Authors

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  1. JR
    Judith R. Walkowitz

    Modern University for the Humanities, Russia

    5 publications · 974 citations

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  2. PH
    Philip Howell

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 61 citations

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  3. FF
    Frances Finnegan

    2 publications · 86 citations

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  4. SS
    Susan Strega

    University of Victoria, Canada

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  5. PP
    Priscilla Pyett

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    2 publications · 55 citations

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Institutions

22

  1. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    182 citations

  2. New York University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    80 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    121 citations

  4. La Trobe University

    Melbourne, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    75 citations

  5. University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  6. Concordia University

    Portland, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    53 citations

  7. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    40 citations

  8. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

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Venues

  1. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 6 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 5 publications · 248 citations

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  3. Feminist Review

    2 publications · 314 citations

    2

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  4. The Economic History Review

    2 publications · 61 citations

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  5. Women s History Review

    2 publications · 35 citations

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