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Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia - The Faithful and the Fallen (Hardcover)
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Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia - The Faithful and the Fallen (Hardcover)
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This book examines the intersection and interplay between
Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the
realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia.
Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical
context is difficult given the paucity of evidence, this work
instead focuses on reformers' construction of a cultural view of
prostitution, which Adams argues was based more upon their
perceptions of the trade than on reality itself. Looking at the
urban core of the city, Progressive reformers saw vice, immorality,
and decay-but as they frequently had little face-to-face
interaction with prostitutes plying their trade, they were forced
to construct culturally fueled archetypes to explain what they
believed they saw. Ultimately, reformers in Philadelphia were
battling against a rhetorical creation of their own design, and any
study of anti-vice reform in the early twentieth century tells us
more about the relationship between activists and the government
than it does about vice itself.
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