- Title
- Written on the body?: degeneracy, atavism and congenital syphilis: re-reading child prostitution in the nineteenth century
- Creator
- Spongberg, Mary
- Relation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 80-88
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/volume-1-1-dec-1995.html
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1995
- Description
- This paper examines the various meanings attributed to child sexuality from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on medical and legal discourse, art criticism and photographic evidence, it is shown that signs of sexual abuse upon the bodies of children were often read as proof of "innate depravity" in such children.
- Subject
- child prostitution; children; sexual abuse; physical evidence; nineteenth century
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1049449
- Identifier
- uon:15036
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-1848
- Language
- eng
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