Written on the body?: degeneracy, atavism and congenital syphilis: re-reading child prostitution in the nineteenth century

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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