'Animal instincts': the sexual abuse of women with learning difficulties, 1830s–1910s.
Girls and women with learning difficulties have one of the highest risks of being sexually assaulted and raped. This article looks at the sexual abuse of girls and women in Britain between the 1830s and the 1910s. I will be arguing that, during the course of the nineteenth century, attitudes to girl...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 29; no. 7; pp. 1201 - 1218 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2020
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