History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Female Promiscuity, Nuclear Family, Intellectual Disability
1 Mar 2017
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Monday, october 31, 2016 his2181 lecture 6 notes next test - 40mins. Gonna cover october 17th, 24th and 31st (today) class, Three topics covered: on victorian ideology and female friendships (17th), on causes of middle class reformers (24th) and on homosexuality, heterosexually - rise of sexology (today) Middle class reformers raised in urban areas because consensus that urban areas needed to be improved (slums, poverty, overcrowding, immigrants) Targeted those who weren"t white middle class. Everyone else seen as inferior - morally, intellectually, nancially. In britain stds especially spread through prostitution was controlled through process of legislation was through contagious diseases acts. Goal of this act was primary focuses on saving the men in the military. 1/3 cases in army on venereal disease. Continued to get stricter and more severe as time went on. Allowed police of cers to arrest prostitutes in naval courts and port cities in britain as well as army towns where they hung out.
