Red light women of the Rocky Mountains /
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose o...
| Основен автор: | Collins, Jan MacKell, 1962- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=272975 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Red light women of the Rocky Mountains. |
| Резюме: |
Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integ. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxi, 458 pages) : illustrations |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-451) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780826346124 082634612X |