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Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode - Couverture souple

Goldman, Marion S.

 
9780472063321: Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0472063324 ISBN 13 : 9780472063321
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 1981

Synopsis

In 1859 high grade silver bullion was discovered on the Comstock Lode. In a twinkling, Virginia City was transformed into a brawling boom town perched on a mountain of silver. Twenty years later it virtually disappeared, leaving behind played-out mines, tumbled-down shanties, and memories of those who sought their fortunes on the lode. The fortune seekers were many: miners and madams, confidence men and dance hall girls. The fast life was as stratified as any proper community, ranging from expensively kept women to prostitutes living in cribs. Laura Fair, an elite member of the demimonde, shot her protector and, after a spectacular trial, retired to live modestly in San Francisco. Jessie Lester made a small fortune as a madam while middle rank prostitutes such as Julia Bulette died in debt. At the lowest end of scale were "celestial damsels," nameless slave women brought from China to minister to the needs of Chinese workers. Chronicling it all was the cynical and lascivious pen of Alf Doten, writer, editor, and bon vivant. In Gold Diggers and Silver Miners, sociologist Marion S. Goldman provides a detailed account of prostitution on the Comstock Lode. By considering sexual commerce in a community limited in space and time, she explores general relationships between prostitution and society, shedding light on sociological questions of importance today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marion S. Goldman received her doctorate from the University of Chicago and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She began work on Gold Diggers and Silver Miners while teaching at the University of Nevada where she was encouraged by denizens of Reno to develop an interest in prostitution of the past, not of the present.

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Éditeur
The University of Michigan Press
Date d'édition
1981
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0472063324
ISBN 13 
9780472063321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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Personne responsable
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