Madam Belle : sex, money, and influence in a Southern brothel /

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Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill''s bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wall, Maryjean
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Subjects:
Brezing, Belle, > 1860-1940.
Brezing, Belle, > 1860-1940
Prostitutes > Kentucky > Lexington > Biography.
Brothels > Kentucky > Lexington.
Prostituées > Kentucky > Lexington > Biographies.
Maisons de prostitution > Kentucky > Lexington.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Prostitution & Sex Trade.
Brothels
Prostitutes
Kentucky > Lexington
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The elegant Miss Belle
  • Civil war and home war
  • A troubled youth
  • A businesswoman whose business is men
  • Networks of power
  • A wealthy benefactor
  • Lexington's exclusive mansion for men
  • A uniquely powerful woman in a changing city
  • Crackdown on vice
  • A growing moral menace
  • The passing of a legend.

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