TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz
PY  - 2022
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781789977905
TI  - Town and Gown Prostitution
T2  - Cambridge’s Architecture of Containment of Sexual Deviance
DO  - 10.3726/b16747
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1288856
N2  - This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and regulation of promiscuity and venereal disease. Among them were the Cambridge Union Workhouse, the Cambridge Female Refuge, the Spinning House (Cambridge University Female Prison) or the town and county gaols. Also, data from the census and local and state regulations are of great relevance in the approach to the study of the «Great Social Evil» and its consequences for Victorian Cambridge. The city was divided into «town and gown» at the time, with the University having its power and regulation over all its premises through the Vice-Chancellor’s Court and its system of proctors, while the town council regulated the areas belonging to the city itself through the police. Therefore, University authorities, evangelicals and the middle-class joined their efforts to put an end to immorality, building Cambridge’s architecture of containment of sexual deviance.
KW  - Prostitution, Venereal diseases, Victorian Cambridge, Cambridge prostitution, town and gown, architecture of containment, Town and Gown Prostitution, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz
LA  - English
ER  -