| Description |
1 online resource (173 p.) |
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Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality Ser |
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Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Quiet House: An Introduction -- Development of the Archaeology of Prostitution -- The Brothel at 27-29 Endicott Street -- Theoretical Approaches to Understanding the Brothel at 27/29 Endicott Street -- Theoretical Approaches: Sexuality and Embodiment -- Theoretical Approaches: Archaeology of the Senses -- Theoretical Approaches: The Archaeology of Violence -- Goals of this work -- Notes |
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2. The ""Social Evil"" in the City On a Hill: Boston, Massachusetts, and Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century -- Boston in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Boston During the Civil War -- The Political Influence of Irish Immigrants in Boston -- Black Bostonians in the Nineteenth-Century -- The Evolution of the Permissibility of Sex Work in Boston -- Boston's Nineteenth-Century Red Light District -- Notes -- 3. Finely Dressed and Very Accomplished: Identity, Sexuality, and Race in Nineteenth-Century Sex Work -- The Embodied Experience of Dress and Adornment -- Notes |
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4. ""The Common Enemy of the Family"": Sex Work and the Inversion of the Nineteenth-Century Family -- Preservation of Health, the Avoidance of Motherhood, and the Inevitable Failure of Both -- Family Life and the 27/29 Endicott Street Brothel: Two Case Studies -- Louisa Cowen -- The Padelfords -- Questioning the Narrative of Destitution and Abandonment -- Notes -- 5. ""It Is the Devil's Business"": Acceptable Labor, Clandestine Labor, and Sex Work -- Sex Work as Labor in the Nineteenth-Century -- Miss Adams' Short Run -- Louisa Cowan: 27/29 Endicott Street's Second Madam -- Mary Lake |
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The Closure and Filling of the Endicott Street Privy -- The Brothel Interior and the Prostitute Body as Sites of Sexual Labor -- Notes -- 6. Cultivated Bodies, Cultivated Spaces: Control, Manipulation, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Sex Work -- Sex Worker Violence in Nineteenth-Century Boston -- Respectability and the Evasion of Law Enforcement on Endicott Street -- Dressing the Set of the 27/29 Endicott Brothel -- Communal Dining at 27/29 Endicott Street -- Notes -- 7. Conclusion: Why Should We Care About the Lives of Nineteenth-Century Sex Workers? -- Main Camps of Sex Work Activism |
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American Federal and Local Responses to Sex Work -- Journey's End -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Brothels -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
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Prostitution -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
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Red-light districts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century
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| SUBJECT |
Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000824681 |
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1000824683 |
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