Call the Midwife book, prostitution
Jennifer Worth wrote the book in 2002 to increase the frequency of midwife stories in written, film, and music literature. Detailing her clinical and mid midwifery events since she became a nurse in the 1950s, Jennifer Worth explains her assistance to young prostitute mothers and experiencing sexual violence in the local community. Her work at the convent of the Midwives of St. Raymund Nonnatus offered her opportunity to study the effects of unemployment, poverty, and sexual violence on individual mothers and young girls. Supported by police reports on responses to instances of sexual abuse and violence in the East End, the writer offers a conclusive statement on the vulnerability of women during the 1950s to prostitution, and the rationalization of immoral vices in the community following the great depression.
Through her acceptance by order of Anglican nuns in London, the writer offered her clinical experience in delivering babies in the east end. Midwifery roles were her calling despite being exposed to unhygienic, overcrowding, and sexual vices in the slums of the London Docklands (Worth, p170). Moreover, emergency calls at night to tend to prostitutes and the financially unable mothers made Jennifer Worth traverse the East End’s unlit roads while experiencing protection from local warlords and criminal gangs. Respect for nuns and direct district midwives
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Rehousing was to be implemented as a policy by the council to protect families from vices and social immoralities. The limitation by the Housing Act that a household of 10 could not be allocated accommodation inhibited the process of rehousing. The Housing Act was mandating the local council and the government to assess the viability of two rooms as an alternative of allocating a family of 10 necessities to alleviate the suffering of low-income earners (Worth, p172). The two-room housing method was condemned as unsuitable for a household of 10.
Father Joe Willimanson Vicar of St Paul’s case into the East Ender community to encourage Christian virtues in limiting losing families as a result of prostitution. Religion and Christian virtues. Eliminating social vices in the dock street area since 1959 could improve the assimilation of commonwealth immigrants despite a rise in London population and contributing to social assimilation (Worth, p174). Helping the East Ender families by counseling young women on sexual violence and abuse would limit depression and lack of self-esteem, assisting young prostitutes was essential in limiting higher rates of depression that correlated with episodes of substance abuse. Gender-based violence from male clients and physical abuse was a collateral loss since the great depression had limited income-generating opportunities (Worth, p173). After the emergence of the economy from the great depression, employment opportunities were rare, making young women experience financial challenges. Engaging in adult entertainment as strippers such as Mary being managed by Zakir in brothels was the primary source of employment.
Rehabilitation program at church house Wellclose Square prostitutes and substance abuse would reduce the effects of poverty and prostitution on young families. The commercial street was the source of illicit drugs and contraband material (Worth, p176). The booming of the criminal economy in the local neighborhoods correlated with the upsurge of corruption by state and law enforcement officers. As such, rent-seeking cartels prevented the elimination of substance trafficking and pimping business. Commercial Street, as the source of illicit drugs, contributed to higher rates of lawlessness, deriving from cartel wars and conflicts.
Corruption by law enforcement officers facilitated the proliferation of brothels and human trafficking in Cable Street. Moreover, the more full longer street that was renamed as Cable Street to Renting out the room as brothels was the principal business in urban centers and were closely associated with pubs (Worth, p177). The uncle to Mary was a local landlord leasing his property to prostitutes in the town. Breaking families and underage prostitution was violating family norms and leading to the sexual exploitation of young girls in the East Ender community. Young naïve girls were lured into stripping with Chateau Marseilles, confusing them with class conflicts. The young strippers would be abused in night clubs in the process of objectifying women as commodities (Worth, p179). Stuffing the private parts of dollar bills increased the objectification of women as sources of physical pleasure. Rationalizing the prostitution of women with a desire to support young families was futile since fathers were throwing money in night clubs.
Lack of social direction and moral convictions heightened social vices while placing prostitution as the local currency. Men would wait in line to get their turn on a favorite underage prostitute indicating the moral erosion during the late 1950s. In her testimony, Mary recounts being offered Sticky sweet cake black forest gateau with Morello Cherries Marina Chartreuse as a gift by Zakir. Little did she know that she was steps away from stripping her body naked in front of a packed night club (Worth, p180). Reduced government spending to accommodate increasing immigrant families reduced social welfare in terms of medical allocations. Increasing social liberties and freedoms of women heightened degrees of expressing female sexuality and seeking to engage in romantic relationships. The great depression resorted to men as caregivers, while women ventured into the streets to seek secretary jobs and from illegal prostitution. As the men cheered the experienced stripper, more alcohol went round, indicating the correlation of night club business with the profitability of selling abusive substances.
A girl called Mary being seduced by Zakir to engage in the night club business as a stripper and a prostitute to earn extra income. Breaking up of families in the Pre-war Stepney East End of the City is narrated in the book Call the Midwife while detailing the proliferation of sexual violence in basic family settings. The domination of prostitution and illicit substance trafficking in Commercial Street in the north of the city was a violation of social moralities. At the same time, law enforcement officers engaged in corruption, thus reducing security levels in the community (Worth, p175). In locations such as The Tower and Royal Mint to the west, criminal gangs controlled primping businesses and illegal brothels towards the Docks and to the South of the city.
Overcrowding at the East Ender’s life was a consequence of increased immigration by West Indians. The impact on the local community was a reduction in employment opportunities and strains on social resources. A decrease in income-generating avenues translated to additional debt and inability to support extended families among West Indian immigrants (Worth, p179). Limited access to water, such as a single tap facilitating water to a household of 10 individuals, was a manifestation of social dereliction.
Welfare effects from uncontrolled immigration by West Indians and nationalities from commonwealth nations were crime and trafficking of illicit substances such as guns and drugs. The majority of immigrants during the 1950s were uneducated, thus lacking prerequisite skills to be employed in blue-collar roles (Worth, p172) as such social stratification resorted to them as laborers, prostitutes around tenement yards and as traffickers of contraband items.
The inability of unemployed fathers to cater for their young families increased dropout rates of dependencies, with sons joining local gangs while girls became prostitutes and strippers.
The effects of the great depression include a lack of finances for households since industries and economies came to a halt. Lack of liquidity in the local London economy reduced the capability of families to sustain themselves, leading to an upsurge of women in informal employment activities (Worth, p174). The great depression resorted to men as caregivers, while women ventured into the streets to seek secretary jobs and from illegal prostitution.
Social effects of the great depression include deterioration of hygiene, causing a rise in cholera and chronic illnesses. The inability of governments and the local council to sustain social welfare and sewerage infrastructural projects contributed to increasing urban decay and an upsurge of social vices leading to vandalism. The inability to maintain social and communal hygiene increased medical costs arising from treatments (Worth, p177). However, an increasing fatality rate in East End translated to a higher dropout rate of dependencies. Reduced government spending to accommodate increasing immigrant families reduced social welfare in terms of medical allocations. Residents began to lose confidence in the government and stereotyping West Indians as a source of social vices, immorality, and child prostitution.
The third effect of great depression leading to prostitution was a shift in social norms, encouraging the freedom of women in the community. Since men could not secure employment opportunities in traditional industry jobs and the increasing separation of families, women began to venture into formal and informal unemployment. As such, businesses and the community started to value the input of women at the workplace, causing a shift in gender mainstreaming (Worth, p173). Increasing social liberties and freedoms of women heightened degrees of expressing female sexuality and seeking to engage in romantic relationships. The effect in the community was the erosion of social moralities since the community was unable to reconcile with women’s liberties and strong family values.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the lack of social direction and moral convictions heightened social vices while placing prostitution as the local currency. Gender-based violence from male clients and physical abuse was a collateral loss since the great depression had limited income-generating opportunities. Increasing social liberties and freedoms of women heightened degrees of expressing female sexuality and seeking to engage in romantic relationships. The limitation by the Housing Act that a household of 10 could not be allocated accommodation inhibited the process of rehousing. Corruption by law enforcement officers facilitated the proliferation of brothels and human trafficking in Cable Street.