Bibliograph

Selling sex in the Silver Valley, a business doing pleasure, Dr. Heather Branstetter

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Label

Selling sex in the Silver Valley, a business doing pleasure, Dr. Heather Branstetter

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Selling sex in the Silver Valley

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Dr. Heather Branstetter

Sub title

a business doing pleasure

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. Dr. Heather Branstetter's research features previously unpublished archival materials and oral histories as she relates the intimate details of this unlikely story

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Business doing pleasure

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