Study Task 5

Possible Research Proposal 2 

1. How has the social standing of female prostitutes been effected by misogynistic patriarchal society within English history?

2. This proposal allows me to look at how religion, the change in royal families, industrialism and the era of sexual liberation affected prostitutes within England. Because western history, especially English, is heavily documented and is a lot easier for me to access and visit sights and museums where I can further reach things compared to trying to find out more 1st hand research on non western countries. 

3.

• Visit a female sex worker and talk to her about her personal experience with peoples treatment of her as a sex worker. 
• Bullough,V Bullough,B (1978). Women And Prostitution A Social History. Amherst, New York: Crown Publishers .
• Carter,S (2004). Purchasing Power: Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-century English Popular Print Culture. Ashgate: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
• Walkowitz,J (1982). Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• Rossiaud, J (1988). Medieval Prostitution. New York: Basil Blackwell. 
• Mazo Karras,R (1998). Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Studies in the History of Sexuality) . Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
• Roberts,N (1998). Whores in History: Prostitution in Western Society. Pennsylvania: Diane Pub Co
• Quaife, G.R. (1979). Wanton wenches and wayward wives : peasants and illicit sex in early seventeenth century in England. London: Croom Helm.
• Henderson,T (1999). Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830: Prostitution and the Metropolis, 1730-1830 (Women And Men In History. New York: Routledge.
• Otis,L.L (1985). Prostitution in Medieval Society: The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc. London: University of Chicago Press 
• Love for sale with Rupert Everett,2014, Television Programme, Channel 4, UK, 05 May

4.I want this essay to be a semi sequential look of the changing social status of prostitutes throughout England's history that I could look at turning into a sequential comic which is like a translated synopsis of what my essay looks at in more detail.

5. I decided to focus on the history of female prostitutes social status because it allowed me to either show a progression or digression in the way women in prostitution are viewed. By looking at England I can focus on one cultures history and perception and look more in depth at England's social change had changed the general publics view of female prostitution as well as giving myself a continues focal point to stop me drifting into other countries and doing a brief broad over view rather than an well researched and in depth view. 

6.

Intro (300)

 Briefly explaining how the essay will look at the way England's view towards female prostitutes has not been as linear as thought. I will be debunking these misinterpretations by looking at how England's relationship with prostitution has fluctuated from mediaeval time to modern times. Looking at how religion, the industrial revelation and feminism has effecter England's view of female prostitutes.

Main Body (1500)

• Medieval Prostitution, religion and misogyny
• Industrial revolution & Victorians
• Now third wave feminism  

Visual Examples

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Conclusion (300)

Overall concluding that the social status change of female prostitutes  within England is heavily interlinked with a misogynistic patriarchal society that switches between viewing women as objects of commodity, sexual deviants, constant victims or they are constantly victim blaming and slut shaming these women. 




Fig.1 Landsberg, Hans (1180) 'The Whore of Babylon' [Hortus deliciarum]

Fig.2 Hogarth, William (1732) 'A Harlot's Progress ' (Pt.1) [Etching series] 

Fig. 3 Toulouse-Lauterc, de Henry (1894-96) 'The Sofa' [Documentation of the lives of prostitutes] 

Fig. 4 Bonfils, Robert (1964) 'Sweet Slut' [Book Cover]