Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Necessary to Social Evil
Chapter 2. The Progressive Reaction
Chapter 3. Prostitution: Symbol of an Age
Chapter 4. The Lady and the Prostitute
Chapter 5. The Commercialized World of Prostitution
Chapter 6. The Subculture of Prostitution
Chapter 7. White Slavery: Myth or Reality?
Chapter 8. The Lost Sisterhood: The Causes of Prostitution
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ruth Rosen is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews

Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come. Times Literary Supplement