LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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She felt that health and hygiene was not important to the cause of women’s emancipation and voting rights.
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The acts were only aimed at children and did not include women; doctors were therefore ignoring the plight of women and the problems of venereal diseases.
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The acts allowed policemen to consider any women in ports and army towns as prostitutes and bring them in to have compulsory checks for venereal disease. If the women were suffering from sexually transmitted diseases they were placed in a locked hospital.
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She had a personal vendetta against the men who promoted the acts because they were her political opponents and also opposed women
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Detailed explanation-1: -Josephine Butler was a social reformer and champion of women’s rights. She is particularly noted for her work with prostitutes and was the most prominent figure in the successful campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Act in 1886. Number 8 North View, Wimbledon, was her home in her later years.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contagious disease” means any contagious venereal disease: “Brothel-keeper” means the occupier of any house, room or place to or in which women resort or are for the purpose of prostitution and every person managing or assisting in the management of any such house, room or place. “Brothel-keeper."
Detailed explanation-3: -The Contagious Diseases Act made it the law for women suspected of prostitution to register with the police and submit to an invasive medical examination. The Act gave the police the power to determine who was a prostitute.
Detailed explanation-4: -Josephine Elizabeth Butler (née Grey; 13 April 1828 – 30 December 1906) was an English feminist and social reformer in the Victorian era.