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City of Dreadful Delight
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In this article, the City of Dreadful Delight is described as a "city of dreadful delight" in the early 19th century, and the authors present a survey of the city's history.Abstract:
(1997). City of Dreadful Delight. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 316-326.read more
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Ouch! Western Feminists' ‘Wounded Attachment’ to the ‘Third World Prostitute’
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the construction of third world prostitutes is part of a wider western feminist impulse to construct a damaged "other" as justification for its own interventionist impulses, and that the "injured body" of the "third world trafficking victim" in international feminist debates around trafficking in women serves as a powerful metaphor for advancing certain feminist interests.
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‘Not an Exact Science’: Medical Approaches to Age and Sexual Offences in England, 1850-1914
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Sexing the Self: Geographies of engagement and encounter
TL;DR: This article explored the way sexualities are negotiated by individuals as they encounter a world that is both real and imagined, and concluded that the making of sexual identities can only be understood by examining the ways that representation and exper...
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Spatiality and Growth Discourse: The Restructuring of America’s Rust Belt Cities
David Wilson,Jared Wouters +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the prominent growth discourse that today characterizes Midwest rust belt cities and investigates how these Midwest coalitions construct their two central themes: an accelerated city competition in new global times and the need for leadership by entrepreneurial-minded developers.
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Structure, culture and society in British towns
TL;DR: The relationship between urban culture and the economic and social structure of British towns was and is part of a wider inquiry into the nature of the British response to industrial change as mentioned in this paper, and the urban place in Britain was the site for the creation, extension and consolidation of a civil society.
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The Faces of Injustice
TL;DR: Shklar argues that we cannot set rigid rules to distinguish instances of misfortune from injustice, as most theories of justice would have us do, for such definitions would not take into account historical variability and differences in perception and interest between the victims and spectators as discussed by the authors.
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Banishing the Beast : English Feminism and Sexual Morality, 1885-1914
TL;DR: In this paper, the men and women's club women defined the terms "men and women" as moral agents of change, and the public and private - women as moral agent of change: "purifying" the public world - feminist vigilantes, prostitution and "protective surveillance" marriage.
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The Victorian city : images and realities
H. J. Dyos,Michael Wolff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal on many levels with the city environment and include discussion of the city's growth and diversions and analysis of the ways in which people responded to these changes.
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Elizabeth Gaskell : A Habit of Stories
TL;DR: Uglow as discussed by the authors describes how Elizabeth observed, from her Manchester home, the brutal but transforming impact of industry, enjoying a social and family life, but distracted by her need to write down the truth of what she saw.
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Currents of radicalism : popular radicalism, organised labour and party politics in Britain, 1850-1914
TL;DR: The history of popular radicalism can be traced back to the 1850s and 1870s as mentioned in this paper, when the old radicalism and the new: David Urquhart and the politics of opposition, 1832-1867 Miles Taylor 3. Popular politics and the limitations of party: Wolverhampton, 1867-1900 Jon Lawrence 4.