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The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era (Paperback, New edition)
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The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era (Paperback, New edition)
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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. A UNC Press Enduring Edition
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