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"In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this book, Seth Koven paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality." "Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them." "By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted - and continue to confront - in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Charities, History, Poor, Sex customs, Slums, Social conditions, Voluntarism, Poor, england, Charities, history, Charities, great britain, London (england), social conditions, Great britain, history, 19th century, Poor, england, londonPlaces
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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
July 24, 2006, Princeton University Press
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Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London
2004, Princeton University Press
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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
August 16, 2004, Princeton University Press
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"IN THE SUMMER of 1865, the reform-minded medical journal the Lancet commissioned three doctors,led by Ernest Hart, to investigate the deplorable conditions of infirmaries attached to London's forty-three Poor Law Union Workhouses, those despised institutions of last resort for the indigent, the disabled, the aged, and the sick of the metropolis."
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