Browsing by Subject "prostitution"
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Crimson streets and violent bodies: identity, physicality, and the twilight of Colorado's vice districts
This master’s project focuses on the changing moral and legal status of Colorado’s vice districts during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The thesis argues that once informally organized vice districts were ... -
State injustice: trapping black women as "sex offenders" for prostitution in "the Big Easy"
This qualitative case study explores the use of a sodomy statute, Crime Against Nature, to criminalize prostitution and its impacts on impoverished Black women located on the streets of New Orleans. Data from in-depth ... -
Finding privacy in the red-light district: an analysis of Victorian era medicine bottles from the Vanoli Site (5OR.30) in Ouray, Colorado
A sample of bottles from the Vanoli Site (5OR.30), part of a Victorian era red-light district in Ouray, Colorado are examined. Previous archaeological studies involving the pattern analysis of brothel and red-light district ...
