Prostitution and Politics in Antebellum New Orleans

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Series Preface VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Prostitution
6. Disorderly City, Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia 3
7. Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel “Riots” and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City 23
8. Prostitution and Politics in Antebellum New Orleans 45
9. Careers in Brothel Prostitution: St Paul 1865–1883 76
10. Historical Perspectives on the Study of Female Prostitution 99
11. The White Slave Traffic Act: Historical Impact of a Federal Crime Policy on Women 106
12. Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America 123
13. Sexual Commerce on the Comstock Lode 150
14. Ameyuki-san: Japanese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America 182
15. Capitalists with Rooms: Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865–1900 203
16. Medical Inspection of Prostitutes in America in the Nineteenth Century: The St. Louis Experiment and Its Sequel 216
17. Changing American Attitudes toward Prostitution (1800–1920) 232
18. The Progressives and the Prostitute 248
19. Prostitution, the Alien Woman and the Progressive Imagination, 1910–1915 271
20. The Private Lives of Public Women: Prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878–1917 286
21. Seduced and Abandoned in an American City: Cleveland and Its Fallen Women, 1869–1936 299
22. Tacit Acceptance: Respectable Americans and Segregated Prostitution, 1870–1910 326
23. Copyright Information 341
24. Index 345