Prostitution / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series Preface -- Introduction -- Disorderly City, Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia -- Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel “Riots� and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City -- Prostitution and Politics in Antebellum New Orleans -- Careers in Brothel Prostitution: St Paul 1865�1883 -- Historical Perspectives on the Study of Female Prostitution -- The White Slave Traffic Act: Historical Impact of a Federal Crime Policy on Women -- Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America

Sexual Commerce on the Comstock LodeAmeyuki-san: Japanese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America -- Capitalists with Rooms: Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865�1900 -- Medical Inspection of Prostitutes in America in the Nineteenth Century: The St. Louis Experiment and Its Sequel -- Changing American Attitudes toward Prostitution (1800�1920) -- The Progressives and the Prostitute -- Prostitution, the Alien Woman and the Progressive Imagination, 1910�1915 -- The Private Lives of Public Women: Prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878�1917

Seduced and Abandoned in an American City: Cleveland and Its Fallen Women, 1869�1936Tacit Acceptance: Respectable Americans and Segregated Prostitution, 1870�1910 -- Copyright Information -- Index

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