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Author Adams, James H., 1966-

Title Urban reform and sexual vice in progressive-era Philadelphia : the faithful and the fallen / James H. Adams
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 203 pages)
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
Summary This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Adams asserts that reformers constructed a cultural view of prostitution that was based more upon their perceptions of the trade than on reality itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index
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Subject Prostitution -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
Vice control -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Vice control
Prostitution
Moral conditions
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021677736
ISBN 9781498508698
1498508693