This investigation will examine the question: “To what extent did the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1 Employee Development 864 challenge the morality of individuals in society toward the rights of Victorian women in that era?”. The Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864 emphasized gender inequality of the nineteenth century and society’s role in controlling the behaviors of women. Judith Walkowitz’s “Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State” and the “Contagious Diseases Acts from a sanitary and economic point of view” government document are pertinent sources to recognize the change in women’s rights in during the Victorian era. The book “Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State” is written by Great Britain historian and women’s history professor Judith Walkowitz in 1983. This is an academic analysis of the alliances between prostitutes an Employee Development d feminists and their conflict with medical authorities and police. This source is relevant as it provides a narrower view on the effect of prostitution on women in society and how the Contagious Diseases Acts were received during the nineteenth century. The original Contagious Diseases Acts document, written in 1864, analyzes and justifies the passing of this legislation. Thus, this source is significant to this investigation by giving insight into the viewpoint of the legislators at this time, in relation to the controversial topic of prostitution. Historian Judith  Employee Development Walkowitz is a women’s history and British history professor at John Hopkins University, with 30 years of research focused on the cultural and social events of the nineteenth century Britain. Her book “Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the Stat Employee Development e” provides a glance into society at the time, from a perspective that is analyzing the events in retrospect. This source exists to demonstrate how the topic of prostitution was a cause for public discomfort and how feminists challenged these behaviors through social deviance. This source has the benefit of objectivity and hindsight, as it was published in 1980, more than one hundred years after the legislation was enacted. Therefore, Walkowitz was able to analyze the cause and effects of the Acts on medical knowledge and British society. However, a limitation of this source is that it does not develop other possible societal effects to the controversial problem of prostitution. It explicitly focuses on the views of the feminists of that era such as Josephine Butler, and is only an extract of the overall experience of women during the Victorian era. The passing of the original Contagious Diseases Acts document caused thousands of women to be under suspicion of prostitution and imprisoned for long periods of time due to sexually-transmitted diseases. The Contagious Dise Employee Development ases Acts provided the guidelines by which women could be detained and sent to lock hospitals until they were cured of their diseases. Having been written as a reaction to the spread of venereal disease amongst officers on military bases, this document has value because it  Employee Development would encapsulate the viewpoints of the legislators and public opinion during that era. However, as a pertinent source to the feminist movement, it is limited. The causes behind the Acts are not definitively demonstrated, and thus the effects of the policy was not recorded. Society’s reaction to the Contagious Diseases Acts could not be explained in this document and therefore >