Philippa Levine Prostitution

History has shown how men have unfairly put the liability of their own decisions, and actions solely on women. In both articles, “Venereal disease, Prostitution, and the politics of Empire: The Case of British India” by Philippa Levine, and “The Making of an Outcast Group: Prostitutes and Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Plymouth and Southampton” by Judith Walkowitz, we are shown how male privilege allowed them to indulge in as much sex as they wish, and when they caught a venereal disease it would all be blamed on women as a whole, and female prostitutes more specific. In Walkowitz (1977), we see how the government try’s to regulate prostitution, and how women are depicted in nineteenth century Europe. In Levine (1994), we see

In nineteenth century Europe, and in colonial India laws were enacted that forced women who were prostitutes or were though to be prostitutes to be examined (Walkowitz, 1977; & Levine, 1994). In Europe prostitutes were seen as immoral (1977). Unlike Europe in colonial India the native population did not stigmatize prostitution as being immoral, but the soldiers and people of metropoles did stigmatized native prostitutes as immoral (1994). In colonial India the climate was the reason that people of metropoles claimed to cause the lousiness of native women, and the immorality of the natives (1994). As societies have progress, we can see that women’s have gained more equality then what they once had, but to this day men, and women aren’t completely equal. Even though women’s rights have come so far, there is still inequality in American society, and societies all over the world. In some places in the world it seems that women’s right have stayed the same throughout the years, and haven’t changed the least. I do believe that the only way for equality to be achieved in America is by showing people that there still is an inequality in our society. There are many that think that we are a perfectly equal society, but the fact is that women make less money then men do for the same job, there is also racial, sexuality, and gender discrimination that occurs, and as long as these problem persist we cannot call America a nation that everyone shares the same