Social purity movement

Social purity movement

The Social purity movement was a social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities then considered immoral. Composed primarily of women, the movement was active in English-speaking nations from about 1880 to about 1910, exerting an important influence on the contemporaneous Feminist, Eugenics, and Birth control movements.

The intellectual roots of the social purity movement lay in early 19th century moral reform movements, such as radical utopianism, abolitionism, and the temperance movement. In the late 19th century, "social" was a euphemism for "sexual", and the social purity movement first formed in opposition to the legalization and regulation of prostitution. The movement quickly spread to other sex-related issues such as setting the age of consent, sexually segregating prisons, eliminating abortion, opposing contraception, and censoring pornography. [(Gordon 2002: 72-73)]

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Cite journal
volume = 20
issue = 4
pages = 443-461
last = EGAN
first = RD
coauthors = G. HAWKES
title = Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity: Childhood Sexuality and the Social Purity Movement
journal = Journal of Historical Sociology
date = 2007

Cite book
publisher = University of Illinois Press
last = Gordon
first = L.
title = The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America
date = 2002

Cite journal
volume = 16
issue = 1
pages = 36-56
last = Hall
first = L.
title = Hauling Down the Double Standard: Feminism, Social Purity and Sexual Science in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
journal = Gender & History
date = 2004

Cite book
last = Kevles
first = D. J.
title = In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
publisher = New York: Knopf
date = 1985

Cite journal
volume = 31
issue = 2
pages = 151-168
last = MORGAN
first = S.
title = " Wild oats or acorns?" Social purity, sexual politics and the response of the Late-Victorian Church
journal = Journal of religious history
date = 2007


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