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Author Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-

Title Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women : illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / Judith Kelleher Schafer.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2009]
©2009

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 Moore Stacks  HQ146.N6 S33 2009    Available  ---
Description xiii, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
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."
Subject Prostitution -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Prostitution.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
History.
Brothels -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Brothels.
Sex industry -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Sex industry.
Sex customs -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Sex customs.
Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
Female prostitution.
Prostitution.
Brothels.
Sexual practices.
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 9780807133972 cloth alkaline paper
0807133973 cloth alkaline paper