Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Selling sex and the law
  • "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line
  • The sexual exploitation of children
  • Infamous public women
  • Larceny and robbery among prostitutes
  • Violent lives
  • The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker
  • Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans
  • "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."