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Upstairs Girls - Prostitution in the American West (Paperback, New)
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Upstairs Girls - Prostitution in the American West (Paperback, New)
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List price R434
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Discovery Miles 3 680
You Save R66 (15%)
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Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story
of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of
these women for hire--why they turned to prostitution, who they
worked for, and what their lives were like. Author and historian
Michael Rutter offers a thorough history of prostitution in the
West, with chapters on notorious madams, the hierarchy of
prostitution, from parlor girls to streetwalkers, and occupational
hazards such as disease and addiction. Rutter also unveils the
brutal Chinese sex trade, which was little more than slavery, with
women being shipped across the Pacific and bought and sold like
material goods. The engaging and carefully researched background
history leads up to the often heart-breaking and sometimes humorous
profiles of the individual madams and prostitutes, from the famous
Calamity Jane to the less-known Rosa May, from ruthless madam Ah
Toy to mother of civil rights Mary Ellen Pleasant. Great
photographs and illustrations!
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