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 |
2 "A Lady . . . Whom I Should Never Have Suspected" Personal and Collective Portraits of Prostitutes |
3 "No Work, No Money, No Home" Choosing Prostitution |
PART TWO THE PUBLIC WORLD OF THE PROSTITUTE |
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 |
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 |
Notes |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Primary Sources |
• | Secondary Sources |
INDEX |