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The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police. Prostitution and Victorian Society makes a major contribution to women's history, working-class history, and the social history of medicine and politics. It demonstrates how feminists and others mobilized over sexual questions, how public discourse on prostitution redefined sexuality in the late nineteenth century, and how the state helped to recast definitions of social deviance.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1800-1899 --- Prostitution --- -Sexually transmitted diseases --- -Women --- -Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Sexual diseases --- Sexually transmissible infections --- Sexually transmitted infections --- STDs (Diseases) --- STIs (Sexually transmitted infections) --- VD (Disease) --- Venereal diseases --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- History --- -Law and legislation --- -History --- -History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Women --- Law and legislation --- Communicable diseases --- Sexual health --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Arts and Humanities --- 343.963 <41> --- 343.963 <41> Seksuele delicten--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Seksuele delicten--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Sex work