black women's sex work in turn-of-the-century Chicago /
First Statement of Responsibility
Cynthia M. Blair.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
SERIES
Series Title
Historical studies of urban America
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"A class we have barely mentioned" -- "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence -- Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900 -- Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability -- Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915 -- Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920 -- Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies -- "This way of livin' sure is hard."
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I've Got to Make My Livin', Cynthia Blair explores African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city's most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women's labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of modern sexuality. €. Focusing on the notorious sex districts of the city'
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726445EF-63A5-4710-BBB4-20F02256C240
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Title
I've got to make my livin'.
International Standard Book Number
9780226055985
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African American women-- Sexual behavior-- Illinois-- Chicago.