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Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans

Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Emily Epstein LandauPublish date:3/21/2018Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807169261ISBN-10:807169269UPC:9780807169261Book Category:Psychology, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Human Sexuality, United States, Regional StudiesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.17 x 7.81 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCP32PMCNS
From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city infamous for both prostitution and interracial intimacy. In Spectacular Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district by looking at prostitution through the lens of patriarchy and demonstrates how gendered racial ideologies proved crucial to the remaking of southern society in the aftermath of the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals that Storyville's salacious and eccentric subculture played an important role in the formation of New Orleans's identity in the New South era.
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807169261ISBN-10:807169269UPC:9780807169261Book Category:Psychology, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Human Sexuality, United States, Regional StudiesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.17 x 7.81 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCP32PMCNS
Emily Epstein Landau lives in Washington, D.C., with her family.
Publisher: LSU Press

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