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

• Main Author: Keire, Mara Laura (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010
• Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups
• Online Access: 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...