dc.contributor.author | Crooks, Katherine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-26T13:00:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-26T13:00:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/57214 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the wake of the series of 1888 murders attributed to the unknown killer called “Jack
the Ripper,” Victorian cultural authorities, and newspapers in particular, spent a great
deal of time meditating on the social problem posed by the class of low-end, urban
prostitutes, from which the Ripper’s victims were drawn. An analysis of the metropolitan
press coverage of the Ripper murders shows that journalists treated prostitution as a class
problem as much as a moral evil. Newspapers identified the Ripper victims as members
of the same class of vagrants from which Scotland Yard drew the majority of their Ripper
suspects. Victorians’ conflation of this group of prostitutes with the men who also
engaged in unconventional and unreliable forms of work suggests that Victorian
prostitution might be reconceptualised not only as a gendered and pathologized form of
sexual deviance, but also as a partially normalized form of labour. This thesis therefore
analyses the Victorian media furor surrounding the Ripper murders as a means of
assessing the importance of class and labour in studies of nineteenth-century prostitution. | en_US |
dc.subject | Vagrancy | en_US |
dc.subject | 1824 Vagrancy Act | en_US |
dc.subject | Workhouse | en_US |
dc.subject | Lodging House | en_US |
dc.subject | Sex Work | en_US |
dc.subject | Jack the Ripper | en_US |
dc.subject | Contagious Diseases Acts | en_US |
dc.subject | Fallen Woman | en_US |
dc.subject | Victorian | en_US |
dc.title | JACK THE RIPPER’S “UNFORTUNATE” VICTIMS: PROSTITUTION AS VAGRANCY, 1888-1900 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2015-06-08 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of History | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Justin Roberts | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Krista Kesselring | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Todd McCallum | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Mona Holmlund | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |