Author: Virginia Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Prejudices
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Girl that Goes Wrong, by Reginald Wright Kauffman
Author: Reginald Wright Kauffman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Life of My Heart
Author: Victoria Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Prejudices: First Series
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Little Lost Sister
Author: Virginia Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era
Author: Mark Thomas Connelly
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469650142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the "social evil," became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era. Mark Thomas Connelly places the response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context. He shows how the antiprostitution movement became a focus for many of the anxieties and social tensions of the period. For many, prostitution seemed ominously linked to the changing status of women, the emergence of permissive sexual morals, uncontrolled immigration, the rampant spread of venereal disease, the decline of rural and small-town values, and urban political and moral corruption. Indeed prostitution became a symbol and code word for a host of unsettling issues and social changes. Connelly probes the complex relationship between prostitution and the other major social issues of the time. He shows that the response to prostitution was ambiguous. It was forward-looking in that it violated a traditional taboo by openly discussing an important aspect of sexual behavior, but it was also one of the last efforts to rebuttress traditional Victorian beliefs about the proper role and position of women in American society. Combining the techniques of social, cultural, and intellectual history, Connelly interprets every major aspect of his subject: the relationship between prostitution and the issue of independent, mobile women in the cities; the obsession with "clandestine" prostitution; the belief in a direct relationship between prostitution and immigration; the problem of venereal disease; the urban Vice Commission reports on the extent of commercialized sex in the cities; the "white slavery" issue and the belief that a conspiracy was afoot to debauch native American womanhood; and the concern about prostitution in connection with the last great issue of the progressive years, the mobilization for World War I. The Response ot Prostitution in the Progressive Era shows that great tension, anxiety, and doubt were important aspects of the profound reorientation in American society that gives the progressive era its distinctiveness as a historical period. Connelly reasserts their historical importance in this study of a major social and cutural episode in American history. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469650142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the "social evil," became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era. Mark Thomas Connelly places the response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context. He shows how the antiprostitution movement became a focus for many of the anxieties and social tensions of the period. For many, prostitution seemed ominously linked to the changing status of women, the emergence of permissive sexual morals, uncontrolled immigration, the rampant spread of venereal disease, the decline of rural and small-town values, and urban political and moral corruption. Indeed prostitution became a symbol and code word for a host of unsettling issues and social changes. Connelly probes the complex relationship between prostitution and the other major social issues of the time. He shows that the response to prostitution was ambiguous. It was forward-looking in that it violated a traditional taboo by openly discussing an important aspect of sexual behavior, but it was also one of the last efforts to rebuttress traditional Victorian beliefs about the proper role and position of women in American society. Combining the techniques of social, cultural, and intellectual history, Connelly interprets every major aspect of his subject: the relationship between prostitution and the issue of independent, mobile women in the cities; the obsession with "clandestine" prostitution; the belief in a direct relationship between prostitution and immigration; the problem of venereal disease; the urban Vice Commission reports on the extent of commercialized sex in the cities; the "white slavery" issue and the belief that a conspiracy was afoot to debauch native American womanhood; and the concern about prostitution in connection with the last great issue of the progressive years, the mobilization for World War I. The Response ot Prostitution in the Progressive Era shows that great tension, anxiety, and doubt were important aspects of the profound reorientation in American society that gives the progressive era its distinctiveness as a historical period. Connelly reasserts their historical importance in this study of a major social and cutural episode in American history. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Bitter Tastes
Author: Donna M. Campbell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034172X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century. Campbell further places these women writers in a broader context by tracing their relationship to early film, which, like naturalism, claimed the ability to represent elemental social truths through a documentary method. Women had a significant presence in early film and constituted 40 percent of scenario writers--in many cases they also served as directors and producers. Campbell explores the features of naturalism that assumed special prominence in women's writing and early film and how the work of these early naturalists diverged from that of their male counterparts in important ways.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034172X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century. Campbell further places these women writers in a broader context by tracing their relationship to early film, which, like naturalism, claimed the ability to represent elemental social truths through a documentary method. Women had a significant presence in early film and constituted 40 percent of scenario writers--in many cases they also served as directors and producers. Campbell explores the features of naturalism that assumed special prominence in women's writing and early film and how the work of these early naturalists diverged from that of their male counterparts in important ways.
Who's who in Chicago and Illinois
Author: John W. Leonard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Will You Be My Nemesis?
Author: Kathryn Funkhouser
Publisher: Stage Partners
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
It's hard to find your perfect match, someone you really connect with; someone who will dedicate their life to destroying you at all costs. Yes, sometimes it feels like you'll NEVER meet your nemesis. But Captain Battle and Dr. Nightmare are willing to try out every hero and villain in town to find the enemy of their dreams. Of course, you're going to meet a few weirdos along the way... An ultra-flexible, quickfire comedy sure to capture your heart and lower it slowly into a volcano. Comedy One-act. 35-40 minutes 5-30 actors (suggested casting: 10 any)
Publisher: Stage Partners
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
It's hard to find your perfect match, someone you really connect with; someone who will dedicate their life to destroying you at all costs. Yes, sometimes it feels like you'll NEVER meet your nemesis. But Captain Battle and Dr. Nightmare are willing to try out every hero and villain in town to find the enemy of their dreams. Of course, you're going to meet a few weirdos along the way... An ultra-flexible, quickfire comedy sure to capture your heart and lower it slowly into a volcano. Comedy One-act. 35-40 minutes 5-30 actors (suggested casting: 10 any)
The Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author: Judith A. Allen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226014630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
" ... The first comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's richly complex feminism."--Back cover.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226014630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
" ... The first comprehensive assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's richly complex feminism."--Back cover.