Slumming
Subtitle: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780691115924
Subjects: Anthropology; Social history; Social issues; c 1800 to c 1900; London; History; Psychology; Slums; History: World; London, Greater London; Poor; Europe - Great Britain - General; Human Sexuality; European History; Gender Studies; History / Great Britain; Sociology; Sociology - Urban; 19th century; England; Sex customs
First sentence: IN THE SUMMER of 1865, the reform-minded medical journal the Lancet commissioned three doctors,led by Ernest Hart, to investigate the deplorable conditions of infirmaries attached to London's forty-three Poor Law Union Workhouses, those despised institutions of last resort for the indigent, the disabled, the aged, and the sick of the metropolis.