Their Sisters' Keepers |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
INTRODUCTION |
![]() | PART ONE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSTITUTION: PROFILES AND PROBLEMS |
![]() | 1 "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 |
![]() | 2 "A Lady . . . Whom I Should Never Have Suspected" Personal and Collective Portraits of Prostitutes |
• | Personal Profiles |
• | The Collective Profile |
![]() | 3 "No Work, No Money, No Home" Choosing Prostitution |
• | The Causes |
• | Achieving the Dream |
![]() | PART TWO THE PUBLIC WORLD OF THE PROSTITUTE |
![]() | 4 "Notorious Offenders" Prostitutes and the Law |
• | The Laws and Prostitution |
![]() | 5 Notorious Defenders Prostitutes Using the Law |
• | Prostitutes and Law Enforcers |
• | Prostitutes As Legal Citizens |
![]() | 6 "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 |
![]() | PART 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 |
![]() | APPENDIX 2: JEWETT CORRESPONDENCE |
• | Inventory of the Correspondence |
![]() | Notes |
• | 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 |
![]() | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
![]() | Primary Sources |
• | Manuscripts |
• | Published Reports and Documents |
• | Newspapers and Journals |
• | New York City Directories and Maps |
• | Other Contemporary Printed Sources |
• | Secondary Sources |
![]() | INDEX |
• | A |
• | B |
• | C |
• | D |
• | E |
• | F |
• | G |
• | H |
• | I |
• | J |
• | K |
• | L |
• | M |
• | N |
• | O |
• | P |
• | R |
• | S |
• | T |
• | U |
• | V |
• | W |