Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia: The Faithful and the Fallen
- ISBN-10
- 1498508693
- ISBN-13
- 9781498508698
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 230
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-01
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Author
- James H. Adams
Description
This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Adams asserts that reformers constructed a cultural view of prostitution that was based more upon their perceptions of the trade than on reality itself.
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