Katie N. Johnson specializes in theatre, film, and gender studies in the English Department at Miami University of Ohio where she is Associate Professor. In 2003, she was awarded the Gerald Kahan Award for best essay in the field of theatre studies by a younger scholar. Her work has appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, the Journal of American Drama and Research, American Drama, The Eugene O'Neill Review, The American Transcendental Quarterly, and the Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History.
Introduction: The Brothel Drama
Part I. The Female Performer as Prostitute: 1. Zaza: that 'obtruding harlot' of the stage
2. That 'sin-stained' Sapho
3. The Easiest Way and the actress-as-whore myth
Part II. Working Girls: 4. The shop girl: working girl dramas
5. The girl shop: Mrs Warren's Profession
Part III. Opium Dens and Urban Brothels: Staging the White Slave: 6. White slave plays in progressive American theatre
7. Brothel anyone? Laundering the 1913-14 white slave season
Part IV. The Legitimation and Decline of the Brothel Drama: 8. Damaged Goods: sex hysteria and the Prostitute Fatale
9. The repentant courtesan in Anna Christie and the lesbian prostitute in The God of Vengeance.
![Grand Opera House, London, Ont., Programme [microform]: Wednesday, January 2nd, The Holden Comedy Co.](https://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/65/65558/65558264m.jpg "Grand Opera House, London, Ont., Programme [microform]: Wednesday, January 2nd, The Holden Comedy Co.")
