City of Eros : New York City, prostitution, and the commercialization of sex, 1790-1920 / Timothy J. Gilfoyle
- Bib ID:
- 699245
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gilfoyle, Timothy J
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, c1992
- 462 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0393311082 (paperback)
- 0393028003
- Full contents:
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- 1. Holy Grounds
- Pt. 1. Antebellum New York, 1820-1870. 2. Sex Districts. Five Points. The West Side. Water and Cherry Streets. The Hook. 3. "The Whorearchy" 4. Brothel Riots and Broadway Pimps. 5. Sporting Men
- Pt. II. Halcyon Years. 6. "Shoulder Hitters," Porno Kings, and Politicians. 7. A "Gay" Literature. 8. "Bawdy Houses"
- Pt. III. Comstock's New York, 1871-1920. 9. Sexual Politics. Sexual Politics before 1870. The Preventive Society. The Vice Campaigns. 10. Sex Districts Revisited. The Tenderloin. The African Tenderloin. The Rialto. East Side. Bleecker Street and Washington Square. Lower East Side. Below Canal Street. Above Fifty-ninth Street. Outer Boroughs. 11. Concert Halls and French Balls. The French Ball. Real Men. Residential Sex. The Raines Law Hotel. 12. Syndicates and Underworlds. The Rise of the Syndicates. Landlords and the Underworld. 13. White Slaves and Kept Women. Real Lives. 14. Undermining the Underworld. The End of the Century of Prostitution.
- App. 1 A Selection of Brothel Owners in New York City, 1820-1859
- App. 2 Recorded Attacks on Houses of Prostitution, 1820-1860.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-437) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1992
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