An edition of Remedies for the wrongs of women (1844)
Remedies for the wrongs of women
By Associate Institution for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women.
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Publish Date
1844
Publisher
Hatchard
Language
-
Pages
64
Description:
Impoverished young women were often unsuspectingly led into prostitution, which ruined their reputations and destroyed their lives. The bills and petitions included here reveal an attempt to stop this practice by enforcing laws which would withdraw protection of brothels and give protection to prostitutes.
subjects: Women, Social conditions, Prostitution, Social and moral questions, Femmes, Women (female humans)
Places: Great Britain