“Refuse of Humanity” or Refused Their Humanity: The Victorian Feminist Construction of Sex Workers as Human-Rights Subjects
By Marina Albanese, PC 20' Advised by Professor Stuart Semmel Edited by Frank Lukens, ES 22' Julianna Gross, DC 23' Historians have differed in their treatment of Josephine Butler (1828-1906), the Victorian feminist who led campaigns against regulated sex work in Britain, across Europe, and in Britain’...
