Changing Images of Deviance: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Anti-Prostitution Movements

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This article traces changing images of the prostitute in nineteenth-century Canada to show that the “prostitute” was always imaged as the rhetorical antithesis of the Ideal Woman. When the latter was constructed as “saint,” the prostitute was a “fallen angel.” Images of Ideal Woman as saint or coequal led to reconstruction of her antithesis as victim. Later redefinition of Ideal Woman as “protected wife” led to reframing of the prostitute as “white slave.” Final reconstruction as “nurturing mother” encouraged redefinition of the prostitute as a “physiological pathology.”View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2010.548273