Prostitution, women, and misuse of the law : the fallen daughters of Eve /
Helen J. Self.
- viii, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index.
The Regulation of Prostitution: Society and Law -- Technologies of Power -- The Legislative Background -- The Wolfenden Committee: Regulating Prostitution in the 1950s -- The Origins of the Report -- Preliminary Organisation -- Listening to the Experts -- Formulating an Offence -- The Report -- The Double Standard -- The Law and Society -- The Legislative Legacy -- Moral Matters -- Change and Continuity: The Consequences of Legal Reform -- Legal Reform -- Assessing the Effects of the Street Offences Act 1959 -- 'Any Person': Attempting to Reform the Street Offences Act 1959 -- Resolving New Problems with More Legislation -- Conclusion -- List of Statutes -- List of Regulations, Statutory Instruments and Home Office Circulars -- List of Bills -- List of Cases -- Wolfenden Committee Final Recommendations. Pt. I. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Pt. II. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Pt. III. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Pt. IV. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3. App. 4. App. 5.
"This book is an examination, from a feminist historian's point of view, of the background to the present system of regulating prostitution in Britain, which is generally admitted to be not only unjust and discriminatory, but ineffective even in achieving its stated aims. Concentrating on the 1950's, and especially the Wolfenden Report and the 1959 Street Offences Act, it is a thorough exposure of the sexual double standards and general misogynistic assumptions underlying legislation relating to prostitution. In addition to the detailed analysis of the 1950s legislation and the background to it, there is an exposition of the subsequent workings of the Act, and of attempts to amend or repeal it."--BOOK JACKET.