LEADER 02337nam 2200337z- 450 001 9910583577603321 005 20220715 010 $a1-4214-2769-9 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023688 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88721 035 $a(oapen)doab88721 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023688 100 $a20202207d2010 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFor Business and Pleasure$eRed-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890-1933 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 330 $aMara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire's thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife. 517 $aFor Business and Pleasure 606 $aGender studies, gender groups$2bicssc 610 $aGender studies, gender groups 615 7$aGender studies, gender groups 700 $aKeire$b Mara Laura$4auth$01323016 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583577603321 996 $aFor Business and Pleasure$93035325 997 $aUNINA