Their Sisters' Keepers

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE  NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSTITUTION:  PROFILES AND PROBLEMS
 collapse section1  "The Terrible State of Society and Morals . . . in Unhappy New York"  Nineteenth-Century Moralism and the Prostitution Problem
 Extent of Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870
 collapse section2  "A Lady . . . Whom I Should Never Have Suspected"  Personal and Collective Portraits of Prostitutes
 Personal Profiles
 The Collective Profile
 collapse section3  "No Work, No Money, No Home"  Choosing Prostitution
 The Causes
 Achieving the Dream

 collapse sectionPART TWO  THE PUBLIC WORLD OF THE PROSTITUTE
 collapse section4  "Notorious Offenders"  Prostitutes and the Law
 The Laws and Prostitution
 collapse section5  Notorious Defenders  Prostitutes Using the Law
 Prostitutes and Law Enforcers
 Prostitutes As Legal Citizens
 collapse section6  "Thronged Thoroughfares" and "Quiet, Home-Like Streets"  The Urban Geography and Architecture of Prostitution
 The Dock Areas
 The Five Points
 The Bowery East
 Broadway West
 Washington Square North
 The Prostitute's Workplace
 7  "Upon the Foot-Stool of God"  Working Conditions of Prostitutes

 collapse sectionPART THREE  THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE PROSTITUTE
 8  Friends and Lovers  Relationships with Men
 9  "As a Friend and Sister"  Relationships with Women

  EPILOGUE
  APPENDIX 1:  HOUSE OF REFUGE COLLECTIVE INTAKE PROFILE, 1835
 collapse sectionAPPENDIX 2:  JEWETT CORRESPONDENCE
 Inventory of the Correspondence
 collapse sectionNotes
 INTRODUCTION
 1 "The Terrible State of Society and Morals . . . in Unhappy New York" Nineteenth-Century Moralism and the Prostitution Problem
 2 "A Lady . . . Whom I Should Never Have Suspected" Personal and Collective Portraits of Prostitutes
 3 "No Work, No Money, No Home" Choosing Prostitution
 4 "Notorious Offenders" Prostitutes and the Law
 5 Notorious Defenders Prostitutes Using the Law
 6 "Thronged Thoroughfares" and "Quiet, Home-Like Streets" The Urban Geography and Architecture of Prostitution
 7 "Upon the Foot-Stool of God" Working Conditions of Prostitutes
 8 Friends and Lovers Relationships with Men
 9 "As a Friend and Sister" Relationships with Women
 EPILOGUE
 APPENDIX 2: JEWETT CORRESPONDENCE
 collapse sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 collapse sectionPrimary Sources
 Manuscripts
 Published Reports and Documents
 Newspapers and Journals
 New York City Directories and Maps
 Other Contemporary Printed Sources
 Secondary Sources
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