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

• Hoofdauteur: Keire, Mara Laura (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
• Onderwerpen: Gender studies, gender groups
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 ple...