Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
The Faithful and the Fallen
This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical context is difficult given the paucity of evidence, this work instead focuses on reformers' construction of a cultural view of prostitution, which Adams argues was based more upon their perceptions of the trade than on reality itself. Looking at the urban core of the city, Progressive reformers saw vice, immorality, and decay-but as they frequently had little face-to-face interaction with prost…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4985-0869-8
- EAN: 9781498508698
- Produktnummer: 22442702
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 588 KB
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