"Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come."--'TLS'
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Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come.
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This review is from: The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (Hardcover)
The Lost Sisterhood is a fascinating account of prostitution at the turn of the last century. It is also a marvelous glimpse at the challenges and difficulties faced by lower class women - persons who had many careers and doors closed to them, prostitution one of the few ways an independent (ie. unmarried) woman could earn a living. Far from a sordid or judgemental account, Rosen explores the factors behind the profession, its tolerance (especially in the growing cities of the West), and the attitudes of contemporary Americans towards the trade and those who plied it. I recommend the book for its straightforwardness on a challenging topic, as well as for its honest treatment of the subject and scholarship.
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Intriguing women's history,
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This review is from: The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (Paperback)
Anyone interested in American women's history and the history of the progressive period will be fascinated by this engrossing book. Rosen explains prostitution within the context of a rapidly growing United States, showing how concerns over prostitution dovetailed with concerns about problems of industrialization and urbanization and immigration. Rosen explores the various attitudes of progressive reformers toward prostitution and explores the lives and works of the prostitutes themselves. There are a few interesting photos included in the book, too.
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This review is from: The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (Paperback)
An even-handed examination of working women's history in America. It provides deep & wide insight into how women got into the business of prostitution, stayed there, died in it, or left it. The book is as current today as it was when first published in 1982, as is the turn-of-the-century business era it examines. An excellent read and is a 'to include' in women's history reference/biblio lists.
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Never before had Americans exhibited such widespread concern over prostitution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vice commission, many female reformers, organized womanhood, prostitute population, social purity reformers, social hygienists, entering prostitution, vice report, new prostitutes, commercialized vice, abatement act, urban prostitution, white slave traffic, white slavery, first sexual contact, most prostitutes, white slave trade, few prostitutes, segregated district, one reformer, parlor houses, immigration commission, social evil Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, San Francisco, Progressive Era, Maimie Pinzer, Vice Commission of Chicago, Fanny Howe, Jane Addams, American Plan, New Orleans, Pauline Tabor, George Kneeland, Maude Miner, Emma Goldman, Lulu White, Sally Stanford, Bridgeport Vice Commission, Kansas City, The Lost Sisterhood, Donaldina Cameron, George Kibbe Turner, Hattie Rose, Illinois Senate Committee, Josie Arlington, William Sanger New!
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Never before had Americans exhibited such widespread concern over prostitution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vice commission, many female reformers, organized womanhood, prostitute population, social purity reformers, social hygienists, entering prostitution, vice report, new prostitutes, commercialized vice, abatement act, urban prostitution, white slave traffic, white slavery, first sexual contact, most prostitutes, white slave trade, few prostitutes, segregated district, one reformer, parlor houses, immigration commission, social evil Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, San Francisco, Progressive Era, Maimie Pinzer, Vice Commission of Chicago, Fanny Howe, Jane Addams, American Plan, New Orleans, Pauline Tabor, George Kneeland, Maude Miner, Emma Goldman, Lulu White, Sally Stanford, Bridgeport Vice Commission, Kansas City, The Lost Sisterhood, Donaldina Cameron, George Kibbe Turner, Hattie Rose, Illinois Senate Committee, Josie Arlington, William Sanger New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams on 8 pages
- The Maimie Papers by Maimie Pinzer on 7 pages
- The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism by Emma Goldman on 6 pages
- Female Sexual Slavery by Kathleen Barry on 5 pages
- The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era by Mark Thomas Connelly on 4 pages
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