Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women [electronic resource] : illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / Judith Kelleher Schafer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 221 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.15/34097633509034 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ146.N6 S33 2009eb
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Contents:
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."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.

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."

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