| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Note on Terminology -- Part I The Rise of Prostitution in the Early Republic -- 1 Selling Sex in the Early Republic -- 2 The Expansion of Prostitution and the Rise of the Brothel -- 3 Brothel Prostitution and Antebellum Urban Commercial Networks -- Part II Regulating and Policing the Sex Trade -- 4 Policing the Expanding Sex Trade -- 5 ''Our Patriotic Friends'': Selling Sex in the Civil War Era |
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6 Prostitution, Policing, and Property Rights in the Gilded Age -- Part III Change and Decline in the Brothel Trade -- 7 Black Baltimoreans and the Bawdy Trade -- 8 Rise of Urban Leisure and the Decline of Brothels -- 9 The End of an Era -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Alan Chesney Medical Archives, Baltimore, MD -- Baltimore City Archives, Baltimore, MD -- Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD -- Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA -- Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD -- Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD |
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Milton S. Eisenhower Library Special Collections, Baltimore, MD -- National Archives, Washington, DC -- New-York Historical Society, New York, NY -- Newspapers -- Published Primary Sources -- Online Databases -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
"A vivid social history of Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century, Bawdy City centers woman in a story of the relationship between sexuality, capitalism, and law. Beginning in the colonial period, prostitution was little more than a subsistence trade. However, by the 1840s, urban growth and changing patterns of household labor ushered in a booming brothel industry. The women who oversaw and labored within these brothels were economic agents surviving and thriving in an urban world hostile to their presence. With the rise of urban leisure industries and policing practices that spelled the end of sex establishments, the industry survived for only a few decades. Yet, even within this brief period, brothels and their residents altered the geographies, economy, and policies of Baltimore in profound ways. Hemphill's critical narrative of gender and labor shows how sexual commerce and debates over its regulation shaped an American city"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 02, 2020) |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History
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Brothels -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History
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Brothels
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Prostitution
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Maryland -- Baltimore
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019038709 |
| ISBN |
9781108773669 |
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1108773664 |
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