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- Title
Josephine Butler in Paris: Sex and Race in the Early Campaign to Abolish Regulated Prostitution, 1870–1880.
- Authors
Ross, Andrew Israel
- Abstract
During the 1870s, Josephine Butler brought her campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts to Paris, the birthplace of regulated prostitution. While in Paris, Butler and her allies refined their arguments against regulated prostitution using the Paris morals police as their primary example. As they did so, these activists came to increasingly radical conclusions about the danger of police power more generally. However, the French context not only pushed Butler toward greater skepticism regarding the police but also to an increasingly racialized understanding of that danger. In order to play to French natalist fears, Butler argued that reducing police power over female prostitutes was necessary to preserve European racial health.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); POLICE power; SEX workers; SEX work; SKEPTICISM; COMMUNICABLE diseases; BIRTHPLACES
- Publication
Journal of Women's History, 2024, Vol 36, Issue 2, p51
- ISSN
1042-7961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jowh.2024.a929068