The Magdalenes

Mahood, Linda

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“…Regarding the former, as outlined in Section 2, the present paper contributes to the existing literature by exploring prostitution from a different perspective. The literature review reveals that previous studies have focused on the social implications of prostitution or on mechanisms adopted to normalize it by adopting a Foucauldian perspective (Choi, 2011;Foucault, 1977;Gibson, 2000;Luibh eid, 2002;Mahood, 2013). The present paper, instead, focuses on the role that control systemsparticularly financial and non-financial mechanismsplayed in strengthening ethical tolerance of the law and, consequently, of prostitution.…”

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“…With respect to prostitution, in particular, scholars have adopted a Foucauldian approach to normalization (Foucault, 1977) to demonstrate how the so-called disciplinary technologies, such as surveillance systems or regulatory policies, might contribute to normalizingthat is, to eradicatingthe phenomenon of prostitution (Choi, 2011;Foucault, 1977;Luibh eid, 2002;Mahood, 2013). According to Gibson (2000), with specific regard to the Italian case, the adoption of a Foucauldian approach to examine prostitution from a sociological perspective is particularly useful given that the law that regulated it was clearly inspired by the characteristics that, according to Foucault (1977), may be traced back to the prisons' administration: segregation, discipline, surveillance and collection of information.…”

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“…This objective allows us to offer a different interpretative perspective of the phenomenon under investigation. Previous contributions have predominantly analyzed prostitution by focusing on the severe and rigid State-imposed controls and adopting a Foucault-inspired interpretation framework (Choi, 2011;Foucault, 1977;Luibh eid, 2002;Mahood, 2013) and, in so doing, the extant literature has focused largely on prostitution's relationship with the State. By contrast, in demonstrating how financial and non-financial mechanisms were designed to promote ethical tolerance, this paper probes the relationship between prostitution and society with the aim of exploring how the control system was actually adopted by the State to foster people's tolerance of the AAAJ 36,9 lawand, consequently, of prostitutionrather than to merely control the phenomenon.…”

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Accounting to promote ethical tolerance: the case of the Italian prostitution model (1860)

Gatti

Poli

2023

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PurposeThis paper explores the role that the control system – understood as a set of financial and non-financial mechanisms – introduced by the Ministerial Decree of 15th February 1860 played in promoting the ethical tolerance of prostitution in the Kingdom of Italy.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research method was adopted. Specifically, this study draws on literature on accounting and deviant behaviors and on Suchman's theories of legitimation (1995) to interpret empirical evidence collected from archival primary sources as well as secondary sources.FindingsThe paper highlights how the accounting mechanisms introduced by the law were molded to limit the serious consequences of prostitution from a public health standpoint and to demonstrate that the State neither profited from prostitution nor used public money to fund it. This should have stimulated ethical tolerance of the law itself and, consequently, of the prostitution that was regulated.Originality/valueThis paper opens a new research avenue in the field of accounting history by exploring the connection between accounting and prostitution. Moreover, unlike the extant literature on accounting and deviant behaviors, this study delves into the role played by accounting mechanisms to promote ethical tolerance rather than to activate normalization processes.

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“…73 Above all, what feels needed is this area is synthesis, particularly with regard to the nineteenth century. Mahood and Louise Settle's work on prostitution and Tim Siddons's doctoral work on infanticide, offer important insights into the gendered assumptions around sexuality in Victorian Scotland, but there is as yet no overarching analysis to rival those of Lesley Hall,Jeffrey Weeks and Frank Mort for the English context 74.…”

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The State of Scottish History: Gender

Barclay¹,

Cheadle²,

Gordon³

2013

The Scottish Historical Review

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In Scotland, the exploitation of gender history's potential to enact a fundamental paradigm shift in historical enquiry is a relatively recent endeavour. In 1990, the paucity of printed scholarship on women was such that in their pioneering collection of essays on the gendered division of labour in industrialising Scotland, Eleanor Gordon and Esther Breitenbach decried the 'enormous disjuncture between research and interest on the one hand and published material on the other'. 1 Within medieval and early modern scholarship, the situation was similarly bleak, in 1995 Elizabeth Ewan declaring starkly 'we still know little about early Scottish women'. 2 Approximately twenty years later, the picture is dramatically altered, with an emerging consciousness that gender history in Scotland is reaching maturity. The past two decades have witnessed the gradual accumulation of a corpus of wide-ranging and innovative research, exploring the material realities and discursive contexts of Scots women and men's lives across all time periods. Burgeoning research communities have been facilitated by the development of an institutional and committee-level infrastructure, with in 1995 the formation of the Scottish Women's History Network, now Women's History Scotland, and in 2008 the establishment of the Centre for Gender History at the University of Glasgow, currently hosting the prestigious international journal Gender and History. In addition, two new reference works, Gender in Scottish History since 1700 and a Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, both published in 2006, are fulfilling a valuable synthesising role and bringing the arguments and concerns of gender history to a wider audience. 3 The objective of this article is to provide a useful synthesis of recent research for those interested in employing gender as a category of historical analysis, focusing on the key themes of politics, imperialism, work, family life, sexuality, literature and religion. By no means exhaustive, it aspires to highlight the subject matter within these themes that appears to

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Accounting to promote ethical tolerance: the case of the Italian prostitution model (1860)

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