Selling sex in the Silver Valley : a business doing pleasure / Dr. Heather Branstetter.
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TextPublisher: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781439660713Other title: Business doing pleasureSubject(s): Brothels -- Idaho -- Wallace -- History | Prostitution -- Idaho -- Wallace -- History | Prostitutes -- Idaho -- Wallace -- History | Wallace (Idaho) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Selling sex in the Silver Valley : a business doing pleasure.DDC classification: 306.74 LOC classification: HQ146.W35 | .B736 2017Online resources: Click to View Summary: "Once the largest silver producer in the world, Wallace became notorious for labor uprisings, hard drinking, gambling and prostitution. As late as 1991, illegal brothels openly flourished because locals believed that sex work prevented rape and bolstered the economy, so long as it was regulated and confined to a particular area of town. The madams enjoyed unprecedented status as influential businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists, while elsewhere a growing aversion to the sex trade drove red-light districts underground."--Page [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
"Once the largest silver producer in the world, Wallace became notorious for labor uprisings, hard drinking, gambling and prostitution. As late as 1991, illegal brothels openly flourished because locals believed that sex work prevented rape and bolstered the economy, so long as it was regulated and confined to a particular area of town. The madams enjoyed unprecedented status as influential businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists, while elsewhere a growing aversion to the sex trade drove red-light districts underground."--Page [4] of cover.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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