Jemima’s wrongs: Reading the female body in Mary Wollstonecraft’s prostitute biography
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS AND THE PROSTITUTE : How DISEASE AND THE LAW CONTROLLED THE FEMALE BODY
In this article, I examine the representation of prostitutes in the law, beginning with the Contagious Diseases Acts. These construct the female prostitute in a way that reflects Victorian sexual morality and gender expectations. I go on to explore how subsequent legal representations create complex discourses of prostitution in which the prostitute body is held as the site of the prostitute's ...
متن کاملHippocrates' woman: reading the female body in ancient Greece
generally workmanlike, the translation of technical terms, and the presentation of classical names in particular, is rather less satisfactory, and the text thus contains a number of errors and infelicities which could easily have been avoided. These points aside, this publication still has a lot to offer Anglophone readers. The original enterprise, as its editor, Mirko Grmek, explained in his i...
متن کاملFemale genital mutilation: multiple practices, multiple wrongs.
Sitting down to write this editorial on 6 February, the Global ‘Day of Zero Tolerance’ for female genital mutilation (FGM), it feels somewhat disconcerting to be introducing a feature article arguing for a ‘compromise position’ towards a practice that is widely accepted as abhorrent. Indeed, I’m sure many of the journal’s readers will share my intuitive response that there is little scope for e...
متن کاملComparison of drug use and psychiatric morbidity between prostitute and non-prostitute female drug users in Glasgow, Scotland.
AIMS To compare psychiatric morbidity between 176 female drug users with lifetime involvement in prostitution (prostitutes) and 89 female drug users with no involvement (non-prostitutes) in Glasgow, Scotland. METHOD The Revised Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS-R) measured current neurotic symptoms. RESULTS Prostitutes were more likely to report adult physical (OR 1.8) or sexual abuse (OR 2....
متن کاملthe relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test
the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...
15 صفحه اولذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of English Studies
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1989-6131,1578-7044
DOI: 10.6018/ijes.341191