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Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-

Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / [electronic resource] : Judith Kelleher Schafer. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009. - xiii, 221 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.

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."


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prostitution--History.--Louisiana--New Orleans
Brothels--History.--Louisiana--New Orleans
Sex-oriented businesses--History.--Louisiana--New Orleans
Sex customs--History.--Louisiana--New Orleans
Women--Social conditions.--Louisiana--New Orleans

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ146.N6 / S33 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 364.15/34097633509034