Item
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
title
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
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publisher
W.W. Norton
publication year
1994
description
Prostitution in New York City flourished throughout the 19th century, offering high profits to landlords and fueled by immigration, low female wages, political corruption, and the sexual mores of the age. Gilfoyle's study, based on his 1987 Ph.D. dissertation, analyzes New York prostitution's growth and ultimate decline, its operation, its opposition, and (perhaps rather too minutely) its geographical distribution. He points to the political system that supported red light districts and to the overlap of commercialized sex with socially respectable entertainment.
education level
temporal
spatial
reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Gilfoyle, Timothy J.