Josephine Butler and Regulated Prostitution in Italy

Josephine Butler knew Italy quite well, visited the country several times, and was in contact with members of its cultural and political elite. The movement against regulated prostitution that she helped to create failed, however, to gain any significant results and regulated prostitution was abolis...

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Published in:Women's history review 2008-04, Vol.17 (2), p.153-171
Main Author: Wanrooij, Bruno P. F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Feminism
Italy
Nationalism
Prostitution
Social Movements
Womens History
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Summary:Josephine Butler knew Italy quite well, visited the country several times, and was in contact with members of its cultural and political elite. The movement against regulated prostitution that she helped to create failed, however, to gain any significant results and regulated prostitution was abolished in Italy only in 1958. The article analyses the reasons for this lack of success by looking both at the characteristics of the Italian abolitionist movement and the role of Butler, and at the more general transformation of Italian society in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the rise of cultural nationalism limited the influence of foreign examples.
ISSN:0961-2025
1747-583X
DOI:10.1080/09612020701707092