Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans /
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10297306 |
Table of 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."