Josephine Butler Society

Judith R. Walkowitz suggests that the LNA 's political following owed a great deal to the charismatic appeal of Josephine Butler , whose speeches against the instrumental rape of working women under the acts electrified...

Along with other members of the Ladies' National Association , JB firmly protested against the situation of women in British India, where the Contagious Diseases Acts continued to apply. She involved herself with the...

Among the other women who signed were Harriet Martineau , Elizabeth Wolstenholme , and Florence Nightingale . The petition was compiled by the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts ;...

Several of her public addresses (which were later published) also touch on issues related to legislation and government policy on this topic. Her Address Delivered at Croydon, July 3, 1871, draws the parallel...

She herself, working with the British, Continental, and General Federation for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Prostitution , had set up The Shield the previous month. JB saw it as not only a useful...