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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