Underworld Sewer

Name: Underworld Sewer
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803297975
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A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909

Szerző: Josie Washburn

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Nebraska Press

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For twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelv...

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Szerző

Josie Washburn

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1997

oldal

350

EAN

9780803297975

ISBN

0803297971

Enbook ID

04924883

Kiadó

University of Nebraska Press

Súly

397

Méretek

140 x 216 x 21

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For twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to "throwing a searchlight on the underworld," including the "cribs" of Nebraska's largest city. The Underworld Sewer, based on her own experience in the profession, blazes with a kind of honesty unavailable to more conventional moral reformers. Originally published in 1909, The Underworld Sewer asks why "the social evil" is universally considered necessary or inevitable. Washburn minces no words in exposing the conditions that perpetuate prostitution: the greed and graft of landlords, pimps, alcohol vendors, dope dealers, police officers, city administrators, and politicians; the competition for circulation by sensation-seeking newspapers; the indifference or intolerance of law-abiding, church-going citizens; the false modesty that prevents family discussion of venereal disease; the double standard that allows men to indulge their sexuality but punishes women who do so. Sharon Wood is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago.

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