Katie M Hemphill

Bawdy City

Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790-1915

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Centering the experiences of women, this vivid social history examines Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489010
• ISBN-10: 110848901X
• Artikelnr.: 57171865

Autorenporträt

Katie M. Hemphill is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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
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.