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Author Adams, James H., 1966- author.

Title Urban reform and sexual vice in progressive-era Philadelphia : the faithful and the fallen / James H. Adams.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
©2015
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Prostitution -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Prostitution.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Vice control -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century.
Vice control.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Female prostitution.
Prostitution.
Other Form: Print version: Adams, James H., 1966- Urban reform and sexual vice in progressive-era Philadelphia 9781498508681 (DLC) 2015007149 (OCoLC)903675315
ISBN 9781498508698 (electronic book)
1498508693 (electronic book)
9781498508681
1498508685
9781498508704
1498508707

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