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Josephine Butler, “The Great Feminist”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Belinda Peacey
Belinda Peacey*
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Editor, News Review British Red Cross Society
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Extract

International Review commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by publishing various articles concerning the Red Cross and the rights of man. It might also be appropriate to recall here that another text, inspired by the same ideal as the Universal Declaration, was proclaimed by the international community: the “Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women” adopted unanimously on November 7, 1967 by the U.N. General Assembly.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 8 , Issue 92 , November 1968 , pp. 555 - 570
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1968

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References

1 George, W. & Johnson, Lucy A.: Josephine Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir, 3rd edition. J. W. Arrowsmith, 1928, page 43.Google Scholar

2 Scotland was free of the Contagious Diseases Acts.

3 Many associations for the repeal of these Acts were formed up and down the country. All worked in close conjunction and in time looked to Josephine Butler as their leader.

4 Butler, A. S. G.: A Portrait of Josephine Butler; Faber & Faber, 1954 (page 186).Google Scholar

5 Duchâtelet, Parent, Baptiste, Alexandra Jean, De la prostitution dans la Ville de Paris, 2 vols. Paris 1836 and 1857.Google Scholar

6 W. H. Stead tells us that Lecour, the head of the Police des Mœurs, was said to have made 15,000 arrests a year. These were made by the police on suspicion. “There was no redress, no trial—nothing but ruin irremediable for these victims.” Josephine Butler: A Life Sketch. Morgan & Scott, 1887, p. 80.Google Scholar

7 Butler, A. S. G., op. cit, page 141.Google Scholar

8 The Report of the League of Nations Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children, Geneva, 1927.Google Scholar

9 Bell, E. Moberly, Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire, Constable, 1962, page 204.Google Scholar

10 Letter of Josephine Butler dated March 25th 1896, quoted by George, W. and Johnson, Lucy A., op. cit., page 164.Google Scholar

11 Amos, Sheldon, The Laws in Force for the Prohibition, Regulation or Licensing of Vice in England and other Countries, Stevens & Sons, 1877, page 15 and 227.Google Scholar

12 Butler, A. S. G., op. cit. page 29.Google Scholar

13 The Rt. Hon. James Stuart, Introduction to Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir, George W. & Lucy A. Johnson.