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This is an excellent book when it is discussing Womens' resistance to dominance by men and Middle Class Victorian attitudes toward the lower classes. It gets dull and dissertation like when discussing the doings of the various parties arrayed against each other over the Contagious Disease Act, which sought to regulate venereal disease amongst prostitutes. I Wish it could be chopped up in two big sections. In any case, chapters 1, 2, 8, 10 would suffice for the first view. Needless to say, show more there is no prurient interest in this book of social history and on the treatment of lower class women. show less
An excellent study drawing on a wide variety of materials and evidence examining the category, phenomenon, and identity of 'prostitute' in a historically-sensitive and deep fashion.
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Unfortunately this book is written in unbearable academic jargon with lots of mentions of discourses and the gaze, and I found it unreadable. Of course I should have guessed that it would be like that from the words 'Narratives of' in the sub-title. At least this is an ex-library book that I was given by someone who was decluttering, so I didn't spend any money on it.

It gets five stars on Amazon, so if you don't mind the academic language, you will probably find it interesting.
“Judith Walkowitz sitúa, con habilidad y lucidez, en el turbulento Londres de finales del siglo XIX el momento crucial en el que se constituyen nuestra ‘política sexual feminista’ y las narraciones sobre ‘peligro sexual’. Fue algo inseparable de las representaciones de la ciudad que ofrecían un gran contraste entre los mundos ordenados y un submundo sórdido; de la aparición de las normas modernas sobre sexo y relaciones sexuales; y de los poderosos discursos de la ley, la show more ciencia y la medicina que ayudaron a forjar esas normas. Sin duda, las acciones de Jack el Destripador desencadenaron múltiples angustias y miedos, exacerbados porque el hecho de que nunca se le capturara impidió aplicarle una etiqueta común y definitiva. El Destripador se convirtió en un símbolo sangriento y omnipresente de una violencia contra las mujeres a la que tanto feministas como otras debían hacer frente cada día.
La fascinación de “La ciudad de las pasiones terribles” reside no sólo en lo espectacular del escenario y los argumentos de Walkowitz, sino también en la minuciosidad de su pensamiento histórico”.
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