Download or read book Genteel Revolutionaries written by Carmel Quinlan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It looks at the campaign for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1870s, a campaign regarded as disgraceful because 'ladies' discussed prostitution and venereal disease, subjects they should have known nothing about.".