Katie M. Hemphill (University of Arizona)

Bawdy City

Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790-1915

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This vivid social history of Baltimore's prostitution trade centers women in a story of how sexual commerce and debates over its regulation shaped an American city. A critical addition to the current literature addressing women's history, the history of gender and sexuality, and labor history in nineteenth-century America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781108733281
• ISBN-10: 110873328X
• Artikelnr.: 63558118

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.