The Fallen Woman and Sexuality as “Their Own Weapon”: Victory, “Because of the Dollars,” and The Arrow of Gold

2017 ◽  
pp. 77-105
Author(s):  
Ellen Burton Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Fallen Woman

Race Rescue

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 34-68
Author(s):  
Richard Eves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Fallen Woman

Abstract This paper examines Methodist missionary discourse in Papua at the turn of the nineteenth century, locating two themes: what I call a pathology of desire, to be found in the polemical missionary discourses directed at sexuality, immorality and licentiousness, and a pathology of culture, to be found in their polemical discourses against abortion, infanticide and child-rearing practices. Together, these pathologies were seen as the main causes of population decline. The two discourses, constantly at play, produce a doubled image of Papuan women – the fallen woman and the bad mother – which, it was considered, necessitated the intervention of “a civilising mission.” This involved race rescue – the isolation of those thought vulnerable (children and young women) on the mission station, away from the dangers of the villages, at the same time instilling in them their own notions of sexual morality, and above all the training of Papuan women in European models of motherhood and domesticity, so they would become good wives and mothers.

scholarly journals Fallen women and the London Lock Hospital Laws and By-Laws of 1840 (revised 1848)

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
María Isabel Romero Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
British Society ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Standard Code ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Lock Hospital

The nineteenth century witnessed a huge increase in both private and public institutions to control and to contain two elements deemed to be the most dangerous in British society: the prostitute and the fallen woman. These individuals were considered deviant at a time when the middle-class exercised philanthropy supporting the double standard code of morality. Charity and state intervention were carried out by two kinds of institutions which were closely connected: lock hospitals and lock asylums. However, the role of lock hospitals was to cure venereal disease, whereas the role of the lock asylums was the reformation and instruction of these women. As a consequence, this paper seeks to examine the importance of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum Laws and By-laws of 1840, especially in relation to female patients and penitents, so as to ascertain the roles of these two institutions in the reproduction of the moral standards of the middle-class and of the religious discourse of the time. We shall see that these regulations reflect the ideas of industriousness, repentance and atonement for these women’s past lives, emphasizing the differences between the sexes as far as sexual and moral behaviour were concerned.

The Physician and the Fallen Woman

2015 ◽  
pp. 236-283
Author(s):  
Keely Stauter-Halsted
Keyword(s):  
Fallen Woman

Epistolarity, Narrative, and the Fallen Woman in Mansfield Park

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-285
Author(s):  
Amy Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Fallen Woman

Infanticide in Adam Bede: Hetty Sorrel and the Language of Justice

Pólemos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Francesca D’Alfonso
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Adam Bede ◽  
The Way

Abstract Starting from an analysis of realism as expressed by George Eliot in Chapter 17 of Adam Bede, this paper intends to investigate the way in which law is enforced in a case of infanticide. In particular, in Eliot’s novel the crime is committed by the beautiful and naive Hetty Sorrel whose tragic destiny is a consequence of her seduction by the aristocratic Arthur Donnithorne. Hence her condition of a fallen woman and, accordingly, the trial culminating in the sentencing to hanging. Significantly, Hetty’s silence before the jury in the courtroom is interrupted thanks to the intervention of Dinah Morris, her Methodist cousin who, meeting the prisoner in solidarity and sympathy, will have from her a full confession of the events.

Anxieties of Representation: The Serial Illustrations to Hardy's The Return of the Native

1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-110
Author(s):  
Pamela Dalziel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Other Hand

The selectivity and obliquity of Arthur Hopkins's illustrations for the 1878 Belgravia serialization of The Return of the Native result in a distorted reading of Hardy's text, especially through their avoidance of the passionate and subversive and their tendency to represent the novel as substantially more conventional than it actually is. Hopkins's Thomasin and Venn are represented as unambiguously and conventionally "good"; there is no visual acknowledgment of the more radical Thomasin or the more threatening Venn. Wildeve is essentially avoided as a pictorial subject, as is the problematic Clym of the novel's final books. Eustacia, on the other hand, figures prominently in the illustrations, initially-in keeping with her departure from hegemonic notions of viruous femininity-as a somewhat "masculine" figure. Follwoing Hardy's insistence that she be rendered more conventionally attractive. Hopkins rather incongruously transforms her into an object of desire, only to revert in the final illustration to his less than sympathetic reading: refusing to participate in the erotics of death of Hardy's text, Hopkins punishes the "fallen woman" by reducing her to a misshapen corpse. Hardy's essential toleration-and in some instances actual encouragement-of what now seem "unrepresentative" representations of his work appears to have been related to his own anxiety about the novel's success and based on the recognition that the very conventionality of the illustrations could be a valuable ally in his struggle to render publishable a text that pushed persistently against the limits of the then acceptable.

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