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Title Prostitution / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott
Published Munich ; New Providence : K.G. Saur, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits
Series History of women in the United States ; 9
History of women in the United States ; 9
Contents Series Preface -- Introduction -- Disorderly City, Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia -- Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel “Riots� and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City -- Prostitution and Politics in Antebellum New Orleans -- Careers in Brothel Prostitution: St Paul 1865�1883 -- Historical Perspectives on the Study of Female Prostitution -- The White Slave Traffic Act: Historical Impact of a Federal Crime Policy on Women -- Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America
Sexual Commerce on the Comstock LodeAmeyuki-san: Japanese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America -- Capitalists with Rooms: Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865�1900 -- Medical Inspection of Prostitutes in America in the Nineteenth Century: The St. Louis Experiment and Its Sequel -- Changing American Attitudes toward Prostitution (1800�1920) -- The Progressives and the Prostitute -- Prostitution, the Alien Woman and the Progressive Imagination, 1910�1915 -- The Private Lives of Public Women: Prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878�1917
Seduced and Abandoned in an American City: Cleveland and Its Fallen Women, 1869�1936Tacit Acceptance: Respectable Americans and Segregated Prostitution, 1870�1910 -- Copyright Information -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Prostitution -- United States -- History
Prostitutes -- United States -- History
Women -- United States -- Social conditions
Women -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Women
Women -- Social conditions
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cott, Nancy F.
ISBN 9783110976366
3110976366