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Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London
- Author
- Koven, Seth, 1958-
- Title
- Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London / Seth Koven.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2006.
- Description
- 399p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Originally published: 2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-377) and index. Paperback.
- Contents
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- ch. 1. Workhouse nights : homelessness, homosexuality, and cross-class masquerades
- ch. 2. Dr. Barnardo's artistic fictions : photography, sexuality, and the ragged child
- ch. 3. The American girl in London : gender, journalism, and social investigation in the late Victorian metropolis
- ch. 4. The politics and erotics of dirt : cross-class sisterhood in the slums
- ch. 5. The "new man" in the slums : religion, masculinity, and the men's settlement house movement.
- Kinsey subjects
- Status of women--Great Britain--19th century. Social conditions--Great Britain--19th century.
- ISBN
- 0691128006 (pbk.) 9780691128009 (pbk.)