%0 Journal Article
%T The ¡°Truth about White Slavery¡±. Pr¨¦sentation d¡¯une enqu¨ºte r¨¦alis¨¦e par Teresa Billington-Greig pour The English Review (juin 1913) The ¡°Truth about White Slavery¡±. Presentation of an Investigation carried out by Teresa Billington-Greig for The English Review (June 1913)
%A Christine Machiels
%J Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
%D 2011
%I Universit¨¦ Catholique de Louvain
%R 10.4000/rsa.406
%X En 1913, une f¨¦ministe anglaise, Teresa Billington-Greig, publie dans The Eng-lish Review les r¨¦sultats d¡¯une enqu¨ºte qu¡¯elle a r¨¦alis¨¦e sur la traite des blan-ches. Alors que cette question suscite une agitation exceptionnelle (moral panic), sa recherche fait, ¨¤ bien des ¨¦gards, et au vu de la litt¨¦rature de l¡¯¨¦po-que, figure d¡¯exception. Symbole de toutes les angoisses d¡¯une soci¨¦t¨¦ victo-rienne en pleine mutation, la traite suscite de grandes ¨¦motions, auxquelles Teresa Billington-Greig oppose une r¨¦flexion bas¨¦e sur l¡¯¨¦tude des faits et la critique. Par son travail d¡¯investigation in¨¦dit, qui r¨¦pond aux crit¨¨res de la re-cherche empirique, elle plaide plus largement pour une science sociale au ser-vice des r¨¦formes. In 1913, an English feminist, Teresa Billington-Greig, published the results of an enquiry she carried out on white slavery in The English Review. Whereas the question gave rise to moral panic, her research was, in many regards, and compared to the literature of the time, exceptional. The very symbol of all the anxieties of a Victorian society undergoing major changes, white slavery gave rise to high emotions, which Teresa Billington-Greig countered by reflection based on her study of the facts and criticism. By her unprecedented investigational work, which meets the criteria of empirical research, she launched a wider plea for a social science at the service of reforms.
%U http://rsa.revues.org/406