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The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era
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The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era Hardback - 1980

by Mark Thomas Connelly

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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.

Originally published in 1980.

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  • Title The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era
  • Author Mark Thomas Connelly
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Publication date 1980-10
  • ISBN 9780807814246 / 0807814245
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.5 x 1 in (22.86 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1400
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79024038
  • Dewey Decimal Code 301.415

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University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 261 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, splitting spine; moderate wear and discoloring; solid binding still. No jacket. Chapters are Antiprostitution in the Progressive Years: An Overview; Prostitution and the Problem of Women in Industrial America; An American Dilemma: Prostitution and Immigration; Prostitution, Venereal Disease and American Medicine; The Social Evil in the City: The Chicago Vice Commission Report; Seventy Thousand Innocent Girls a Year: The White Slavery Scene; Antiprostitution, Purity and War. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Politics; ISBN: 0807814245. Inventory No: 190189. .
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