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Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women : illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans
- Author
- Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-
- Title
- Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women : illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / Judith Kelleher Schafer.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
- Description
- xiii, 221 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0904/2008031983.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.
- Contents
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- Selling sex and the law
- "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line
- The sexual exploitation of children
- Infamous public women
- Larceny and robbery among prostitutes
- Violent lives
- The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker
- Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans
- "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."
- Kinsey subjects
- Prostitution--Louisiana--New Orleans. Brothels--Louisiana--New Orleans. Sex customs--Louisiana--New Orleans. Women--Louisiana--New Orleans. Social conditions--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- ISBN
- 9780807133972 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807133973 (cloth : alk. paper)