In City of Dreadful Delight, Judith Walkowitz effortlessly weaves together stories of sexual danger, and, more significantly, stories of overt tension between classes, during the months in which Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who brutally killed five women, all prostitutes, terrorized the city. The book tells the story of Western male chauvinism prevalent in Victorian London not from the point of view of the beholder, but rather of the object. Walkowitz argues that media coverage of the murders served to construct a discourse on heterosexuality in which women were seen as passive victims and sexuality was associated with male violence. Much of City of Dreadful Delight explores the cultural construction and reconstruction of class and sexuality that preceded the Ripper murders. Walkowitz successfully investigates the discourses that took place after the events and the previous social frameworks that made the Ripper-inspired model of male violence and female passivity possible and popular. The City of Dreadful Delight begins with some cultural analysis of the historical context that helped produce the social landscape of Victorian London. In discussing London's transformation, Walkowitz argues that he sees more than a simple shift from one type of city to another, but rather a conflicting stratification of elite male audiences, "scientific" social reform, and the New Journalism of W.T. Stead. Here Walkowitz investigates the “inaugural tribute of modern Babylon.” The "Maiden Tribute" consisted of a series of articles, written by Stead and featured in the penny press, denouncing the sale of girls into prostitution. According to Walkowitz, these stories were based on new scientific methods of social inquiry, but the... medium of paper... the girl and sexuality including articles like Stead's that brought middle-class readers into contact with the events of Working-class London and provided workers with a middle-class representation of themselves. City of Dreadful Delight is an assortment of cross-cultural contact and negotiation between class and sexuality in Victorian-era London. Walkowitz's analysis emphasizes distinct “classes” and the impact of events on each group. Through careful social and cultural analysis of the explosion of discourse surrounding Jack the Ripper, Walkowitz has demonstrated the historical importance of narratives of sexual danger, particularly through the lens of sexuality and class. It explicitly demonstrated the conflictual nature of these discourses, openly showing women marginalized by male discursive domination, whose struggles continue even generations later..