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A series of sensational articles on child prostitution appearing in the Pall Mall gazette in 1885 produced such universal outrage that the age of consent was soon raised from 13 to 16 by act of parliament. This is the starting point for this insightful examination of the ideas and activities of feminists around issues of sex and morality up to the end of World War I.
A series of sensational articles on child prostitution appearing in the Pall Mall gazette in 1885 produced such universal outrage that the age of consent was soon raised from 13 to 16 by act of parliament. This is the starting point for this insightful examination of the ideas and activities of feminists around issues of sex and morality up to the end of World War I.
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In November 1885, a spinster mathematics teacher wrote to a bachelor professor of applied mathematics and mechanics of her impressions on the divide between the sexes: Men seem to say: by long descent, by unparalleled power, by race necessity, physical instincts must be obeyed . . . Read the first page
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In November 1885, a spinster mathematics teacher wrote to a bachelor professor of applied mathematics and mechanics of her impressions on the divide between the sexes: Men seem to say: by long descent, by unparalleled power, by race necessity, physical instincts must be obeyed . . . Read the first page
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