Which Women? What Europe? Josephine Butler and the International Abolitionist Federation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7798655 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Summers (0000-0001-7147-1246, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 214-231 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbl005 |
| OpenAlex | W1996995476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 5 |
Josephine Butler's campaigns against the state regulation of prostitution have been studied almost exclusively in the anglophone and imperial context. Research on the International Abolitionist Federation, which she founded in 1875 and supported until her death in 1906, places these campaigns in a new perspective, demonstrating the importance she attached to the issue in Europe. This article reports on findings at the half-way stage of a project funded by the Leverhulme Foundation under its ‘International Academic Networks’ programme. The strains and contradictions revealed in the correspondence and proceedings of the Federation illuminate cultural and social differences between countries often summarized simplistically as ‘the west’. The influence exercised by Butler, especially over a new generation of French and German feminists in the 1890s, throws new light both on her own career and on the work which these women undertook in the League of Nations in the period between the two world wars.
Context (archaeology) · Economic history · German · League · Period (music) · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Sex Trafficking of Women. Civil Society Activism Against Sexual Slavery Between the 19th and the Early 20th Century
La Société des Nations face à la traite des femmes et au travail sexuel à l'échelle mondiale
Sexual Politics and Feminist Science
Between the crisis of democracy and world parliament
Tensions of abolitionism during the negotiation of the 1949 ‘Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others’
Introduction
The Sexual Question
Colonizing Consent
Feminist perspectives on the history of humanitarian relief (1870–1945)
The League of Nations and the Moral Recruitment of Women
Courtisanes et femmes honnêtes »
From ‘white slavery’ to ‘female sexual slavery’
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |