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For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933

Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2014, Vol.23 (1), p.134-136 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2014 University of Texas Press ;COPYRIGHT 2014 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press) ;COPYRIGHT 2014 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press) ;Copyright University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press) Jan 2014 ;ISSN: 1043-4070 ;EISSN: 1535-3605

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  • Title:
    For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933
  • Author: Long, Alecia P.
  • Subjects: Progressivism ; Prostitution ; Regulation ; Segregation ; Sex industry ; Social history ; Subcultures ; U.S.A
  • Is Part Of: Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2014, Vol.23 (1), p.134-136
  • Description: Scholars who focus on single cities or regions might well miss how the aftermath of those two riots heightened racial fears among whites, led to more intense and discriminatory policing of blacks in and near vice districts, and drove the search for new kinds of legal strategies all across the nation. [...]she writes that the "national policing of moral problems helped lay the groundwork for the New Deal safety net of the modern welfare state," but she offers no further explanation, and the connection is not self-evident (137).
  • Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1043-4070
    EISSN: 1535-3605
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
    ProQuest Central

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