History of Women in the United States / Prostitution

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Prostitution -- Disorderly City, Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia / Carlisle, Marcia -- Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel “Riots” and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City / Gilfoyle, Timothy J. -- Prostitution and Politics in Antebellum New Orleans / Tansey, Richard -- Careers in Brothel Prostitution: St Paul 1865–1883 / Best, Joel -- Historical Perspectives on the Study of Female Prostitution / Newman, Frances / Cohen, Elizabeth / Tobin, Patricia / Macpherson, Gail -- The White Slave Traffic Act: Historical Impact of a Federal Crime Policy on Women / Beckman, Marlene D. -- Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America / Hirata, Lucie Cheng -- Sexual Commerce on the Comstock Lode / Goldman, Marion -- Ameyuki-san: Japanese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America / Ichioka, Yuji -- Capitalists with Rooms: Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865–1900 / Petrik, Paula -- Medical Inspection of Prostitutes in America in the Nineteenth Century: The St. Louis Experiment and Its Sequel / Burnham, John C. -- Changing American Attitudes toward Prostitution (1800–1920) / Riegel, Robert E. -- The Progressives and the Prostitute / Lubove, Roy -- Prostitution, the Alien Woman and the Progressive Imagination, 1910–1915 / Feldman, Egal -- The Private Lives of Public Women: Prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878–1917 / Murphy, Mary -- Seduced and Abandoned in an American City: Cleveland and Its Fallen Women, 1869–1936 / Morton, Marian J. -- Tacit Acceptance: Respectable Americans and Segregated Prostitution, 1870–1910 / Shumsky, Neil L. -- Copyright Information -- Index