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Feminizing Venereal Disease

The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Mary Spongberg
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 1-14

  3. Feminizing Syphilis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Sick Rose

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 17-34

    3. The Source

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 35-60

  4. Regulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Implementing the System

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 63-72

    3. Resisting the Acts

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 73-84

    4. The New Campaign

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 85-101

  5. The Question of Child Prostitution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Pathologizing Children

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 105-126

    3. Child Prostitution

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 127-140

  6. Syphilis, Male Sexuality and Female Degeneration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. The Sins of the Father

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 143-159

    3. The Syphilitic as Moral Degenerate

      • Mary Spongberg
      Pages 160-182

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 196-231
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About this book

In the late-eighteenth century all women were considered potentially infectious to men but by the early-twentieth century only certain women were considered vectors of disease. By focusing on representations of the prostitute in medical and legal discourse, art, literature and religion this book will chart these shifts, while at the same time exploring broader concerns about construction of femininity and masculinity, the protection of male sexual privilege and the impact of feminism and eugenics on medicine, the law and popular culture.
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MARY SPONGBERG
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