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Urban reform and sexual vice in progressive-era Philadelphia : the faithful and the fallen James H. Adams
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA HQ 146 .P4 A23 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, James H., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Prostitution.
- Vice control--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Vice control.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Moral conditions--History--20th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- x, 203 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Contents:
- American maidens and fallen women: defining the Gilded Age prostitute
- Schools of vice or virtue: constructing the tenderloin
- Reform through eternal vigilance: white slavery and the vice commission
- Arguing success: deconstructing the vice syndicate
- The color of vice: "Negro tenderloins" in Camden and Bethel Court
- The politics of prostitution: the rise of the "charity girl"
- Back to basics: the unseen prostitute, 1919-1940.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781498508681 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1498508685 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781498508704 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1498508707 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 903675315
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