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876041
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Blair, Cynthia M.
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I've got to make my livin' : : black women's sex work in turn-of-the-century Chicago /\ Cynthia M. Blair.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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Historical studies of urban America
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1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0226056007
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: 1283058111
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: 6613058114
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: 9780226056005
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: 9781283058117
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: 9786613058119
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0226055981
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9780226055985
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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"A class we have barely mentioned" -- "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence -- Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900 -- Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability -- Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915 -- Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920 -- Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies -- "This way of livin' sure is hard."
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| Abstract
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For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I've Got to Make My Livin', Cynthia Blair explores African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city's most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women's labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of modern sexuality. €. Focusing on the notorious sex districts of the city'
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African American women-- Sexual behavior-- Illinois-- Chicago.
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Prostitution-- Illinois-- Chicago-- History.
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Sex Work-- history.
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Sexual Behavior-- history.
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Women-- history.
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African American women-- Sexual behavior.
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Prostitution.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP-- Sexual Instruction.
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Illinois, Chicago.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.74/209773/1109041
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HQ146.C4B53 2010eb
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