Canadian Prostitution Control Between 1914 and 1970: An Exercise in Chauvinist Reasoning

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Nick Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First World

AbstractThis paper conducts a feminist analysis of Canadian prostitution control during the period between 1914 and 1970. The major intent of this analysis is to outline the manner in which the prostitution-related vagrancy provisions were enforced from the beginning of the First World War through to their repeal in the early 1970s. The effects of two world wars, the eugenics movement of the 1920s, the Great Depression and the liberalized sexual mores of the 1960s on prostitution control are assessed. Throughout this analysis, it is noted that Canadian prostitution control was characterized by an underlying chauvinist bias which overrode all other factors. Furthermore, it is also noted that feminists generally declined to become involved in the prostitution debate, and that many women's groups and organizations sided with the male-dominated military and criminal justice systems.

The politics of international co-operation: neutrality and crisis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hilson
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
First World War ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This chapter explores the debates over the meanings of co-operation in the ICA and its members during the inter-war period, tracing their evolution from the end of the First World War throughout the 1920s and 1930s, as the ICA struggled to respond to economic and political challenges of the Great Depression and its aftermath. While many members staunchly defended the principle of co-operative neutrality against those who would align the movement with left or right, the crisis also highlighted the need for the co-operative movement to develop its own ideology and programme, especially if co-operation were to realise its idealistic ambitions to defend peace and democracy. The chapter examines how the ICA responded to the challenges of Bolshevism and Nazism, and considers especially the role of representatives of the Nordic countries, not only in defending political neutrality, but also shaping an idealistic vision of co-operation, based on the legacy of the Rochdale Pioneers.

The Merger Movement in Banking, 1919–1933

1985 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Nelson White
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Statistical Series ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The merger movement between the First World War and the Great Depression played an important role in the evolution of the American banking industry. The first complete statistical series on mergers is presented and the factors that contributed to the merger are analyzed.

scholarly journals The reaction of the Balkan States to the global economic crises of the mid-XIX — mid-XX centuries

2021 ◽  
pp. 490-496
Author(s):  
Nikita S. Gusev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Balkan States ◽  
First World

The review reviews the book of the Bulgarian historian H. Berova. It provides a comparative analysis of the actions of the governments of the Balkan states in the conditions of global economic crises — the “long depression” of 1873–1896, the recession as a result of the First World War and the “great depression”. The implemented measures are compared with the world experience, with previously made decisions and actions of neighbors.

Rescued from the Brink: the Collapse and Resurgence of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
Andrew Atherstone
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
First World War ◽  
Conservative Estimate ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time ◽  
First World ◽  
The Church

The twenty-five theological colleges of the Church of England entered the 1960s in buoyant mood. Rooms were full, finances were steadily improving, expansion seemed inevitable. For four years in succession, from 1961 to 1964, ordinations exceeded six hundred a year, for the first time since before the First World War, and the peak was expected to rise still higher. In a famously misleading report, the sociologist Leslie Paul predicted that at a ‘conservative estimate’ there would be more than eight hundred ordinations a year by the 1970s. In fact, the opposite occurred. The boom was followed by bust, and the early 1970s saw ordinations dip below four hundred. The dramatic plunge in the number of candidates offering themselves for Anglican ministry devastated the theological colleges. Many began running at a loss and faced imminent bankruptcy. In desperation the central Church authorities set about closing or merging colleges, but even their ruthless cutbacks could not keep pace with the fall in ordinands.

THE FISCHER CONTROVERSY OVER GERMAN WAR AIMS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS RECEPTION BY EAST GERMAN HISTORIANS, 1961–1989

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW STIBBE
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
East German ◽  
War Aims ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First World ◽  
Socialist Unity

The Fischer controversy of the 1960s was a major landmark in post-war West German historiography. Surprisingly few historians to date have devoted their attention to the East German reception of Fischer's work, however. This article seeks to fill this gap by looking at some of the critical reviews published in East German academic journals and also at internal records from the Socialist Unity Party archive. Particular emphasis is placed on the period after 1965 when East German scholars began to explore the historiographical and national implications of the Fischer controversy with a greater degree of sensitivity but also with a greater degree of caution (for strategic political reasons). A mutually beneficial exchange of ideas between Fischer and German Democratic Republic scholars working on the First World War continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s, although ironically this was at a time when both sides were moving ever further away from the idea of a possible reunification of the two Germanies in the future.

The Working Class and the Mexican Revolution, c. 1900–1920

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Knight
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First World

Like any major historical phenomenon, the Mexican Revolution can be viewed from a variety of angles. From one, arguably the most important, it was a rural phenomenon, rightly categorised by Eric Wolf as a ‘peasant war’, hence comparable to the Russian or Chinese Revolutions. Form another it can be seen as a generalised social and political (some might like to call it ‘hegemonic’ crisis, marking the end of the old oligarchic Porfirian order and characterised by mass political mobilisation; as such it bears comparison with the crises experienced in Italy and Germany after the First World War; in Spain in the early 1930s; in Brazil in the 1960s or Chile in the 1970s. But what it emphatically was not was a workers' revolution. No Soviets or workers' party sought — let alone attained — political hegemony. No Soviets or workers' councils were established, as in Petrograd or Berlin. There were no attempts at works' control of industry, as in Turin, Barcelina — or the gran mineria of Bolivia.

Stuff and Nonsense in the Treatment of Older People: Essential Reading for the Over-45s

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 735-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Andrew James
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Patient Group ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
First World War ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First World

AbstractThere is a lot of nonsense talked about how to adapt therapy for older people. This is because often authors fail to define the types of populations they are tailoring their therapy for. Such definitions are important with such a diverse patient group, some of whom were “in-service” during the first world war, while others were “doing drugs and dropping out” in the 1960s. To guide our thinking regarding specific adaptations, this paper presents a framework for clarifying therapeutic need. The second section of the paper illustrates ways in which working psychotherapeutically with older patients has helped inform mainstream CBT theory and practice, with particular reference to competence and schema work.

Figures of Transgression in Representations of the First World War on British Television

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Emma Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Television Medium ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This chapter explores British televisual representations of transgression in the First World War from the 1960s to the centenary period (2014-18). It examines the ways in which the television medium has mediated public discourse about the historical and historiographical meanings of war and identity during and after the conflict of 1914-18 by focusing on the ways in which figures of transgression such as mutineers, conscientious objectors, and deserters have been used to subvert normative narratives of the Great War. The chapter considers how the deployment of historical transgression has enabled critical reflections of contemporary political and social discourses. It demonstrates how and why the intersection of the commemorative impulse in televisual representations of war encourages reflection on and negotiation of positions within and outside of more reassuring cultural narratives about the conflict, within institutional and governmental contexts for production and reception, and how they have shifted over time. This chapter concludes that such figures provide uncomfortable counter-narratives but that these are ultimately deployed to reinforce dominant ideas about the conflict.

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