For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933

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Tác giả: Mara Laura Keire

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1421427690

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Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 270473

 Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire's thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans
  Hartford, Connecticut
  New York City
  Macon, Georgia
  San Francisco
  and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.
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