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Girls Who Went Wrong: Prostitutes in American Fiction, 1885-1917

Book by Laura Hapke; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989

Subjects:

American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Girls In Literature, Prostitutes In Literature, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...works of ideality and romance." 28 Historical fiction like Charles Majors When Knighthood...At a time when estimates of American prostitutes averaged 40,000 in New York, and 10...literary cautiousness from which even the prostitutes most daring imaginers would not be exempt...
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The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction

Book by Ray B. Browne, Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000

Subjects:

Detective And Mystery Stories, American--History And Criticism, Detective And Mystery Stories, English--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Literature And History--Great Britain--History, Literature And History--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction edited by Ray B...detective as historian : history and art in historical crime fiction / edited by Ray B. Browne...American--History and criticism. 3. Historical fiction, American--History and criticism...
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Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances

Book by Rita B. Dandridge; Peter Lang, 2004

Subjects:

African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life, African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Literature And History--United States--History--20th Century, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Social Action In Literature, Social Problems In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...alias Candy, one of Bohemias former prostitutes. Cassie Lee underscores her belief in...friends represent. Her social position is historically rooted in an eighteenth- century practice...Female equality is enough of a historical thread in the history of Africa for...
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Historical Nightmares and Imaginative Violence in American Women's Writings

Book by Amy S. Gottfried; Greenwood Press, 1998

Subjects:

American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Literature And History--United States, Nightmares In Literature, Postmodernism (Literature)--United States, Victims In Literature, Violence In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Interpreting five contemporary novels that document suppressed histories of violence and abuse, including Toni Morrison's Beloved and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, the author then examines the disturbing connections between violence and art.
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English in Its Social Contexts: Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics

Book by Tim William MacHan, Charles T. Scott; Oxford University Press, 1992

Subjects:

English Language--Grammar, Historical, English Language--Social Aspects, Sociolinguistics

Collections: Entire Library

...English in Its Social Contexts Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics Tim William Machan...Its Social Contexts Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics Edited by TIM...English in its social contexts: essays in historical sociolinguistics edited by Tim William...

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Exposing the "Pretty Woman" Myth: A Qualitative Examination of the Lives of Female Streetwalking Prostitutes

Journal article by Rochelle L. Dalla; The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 37, 2000

Subjects:

Prostitutes--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Prostitution--Social aspects, Runaway teenagers--Sexual behavior, Sex oriented businesses--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...and its use by street-level prostitutes has garnered much recent...individual is embedded, including historical events and situations (e...discussed in three segments: (a) historical events culminating in prostitution...popular image of streetwalking prostitutes lives controlled by pimps...
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The Making of Prostitutes in Japan: The 'Karayuki-San

Journal article by Bill Mihapoulos; Social Justice, Vol. 21, 1994

Subjects:

Japan--Social aspects, Prostitutes--Social aspects, Women--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

...went to work as prostitutes, mainly in Southeast...study begins from a historical interest in the...poverty and socio-historical constraints that...their identity as prostitutes and as a separate...ironically retarded historical and political understanding...of the women as "prostitutes." Until this production...
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Metaphors of Modernity: Prostitutes, Bankers, and Other Jews in Balzac's Splendeurs et Miseres Des Courtisanes

Journal article by Maurice Samuels; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006

Subjects:

French literature--Analysis, Jewish women--Portrayals, Prostitutes--Demographic aspects, Prostitutes--Portrayals, Women, Jewish--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...in the cultural imagination of the time, showing how the prostitutes body inscribes class as well as gender hierarchies. (1) Building...criticizes and mythologizes. Before turning to the novel, a historical question arises: was the Jewish prostitute actually a myth...
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Family Affiliation and Prostitution in a Cultural Context: Career Onsets of Taiwanese Prostitutes

Journal article by Charles H. Mccaghy, Charles Hou; Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, 1994

Subjects:

Family--Social aspects, Prostitutes--Social aspects, Taiwan--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...from families is the exception, not the rule, among Bangkok prostitutes. Only 1 of a sample of 46 women had completely severed family...Students of Taiwanese culture caution that the links between historical China and todays Taiwan are "slippery and shifting" and...
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The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk

Journal article by Jeff Gall; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 72, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk. by Jeff Gall The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas M. Spencer. (Columbia and London: University...

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Companion to Women's Historical Writing

Magazine article by June Purvis; History Today, Vol. 57, January 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Companion to Women's Historical Writing (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Companion to Womens Historical Writing Edited by Mary Spongberg...of women considered to be prostitutes, but not their male clients...stories of women worthies, historical fictions, diaries and letter-writing...period (the study by women of historical periods from the ancient...
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The Mountain Inns of the Rising Sun - A Little Historical Detour

Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 15, June 2000

Subjects:

Hotels and motels--Japan, Japan

Collections: Entire Library

The Mountain Inns of the Rising Sun - A Little Historical Detour. by Eva Harnik Some years ago, I...itinerant merchants, artisans, priests, and male and female prostitutes, all making a living along the highways. Most of this...
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Spreading Truths That Are Not in the Gospels: Were Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene an Item? Read Dan Brown's Book, the Da Vinci Code. It Is, Writes Brown, Historical Fact. on the Record. Mary Magdalene Was Not a Prostitute

Magazine article by Stella Orakwue; New African, May 2005

Subjects:

Brown, Dan (American writer)--Criticism and interpretation, Jesus Christ--Portrayals, Mary Magdalene, Saint--Portrayals, The Da Vinci Code (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...fixed to make a screeching sound like a distressed monkey in an animal laboratory. A female streetwalker, stilettos, the prostitutes trade mark. A car horn, short. And again. And again. There. It is the same horny horn. A dog barks. Theresa knows it is a...
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Cats out of the Bag: Investigations of Slang by the Editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Magazine article by J.E. Lighter; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, June 1999

Subjects:

English language--Terminology, Slang

Collections: Entire Library

...Investigations of Slang by the Editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. by J.E. Lighter...even Catfish! Seventeenth-century slangsters did refer to prostitutes as cats--hence cathouse, "a brothel." Raining cats and dogs...
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Untruth in Academe

Magazine article by Kenneth Lee; The American Enterprise, Vol. 10, May 1999

Subjects:

Historical research--Standards, Human rights workers--Reports, Ideology--Evaluation, Truthfulness and falsehood--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...of Kinseys research subjects were aberrant males. Many were prisoners, 1,400 were sex offenders, and another 200 were male prostitutes. Not surprisingly, Kinsey got the unconventional results he wanted. For example, he popularized the notion that 10 to 37...

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The Who's Who Guide to Ten Most Evil Britons

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 27, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of Fascists, Jack the Ripper and King John. They chose one historical rogue from each century of the last millennium in the list...believed to be responsible for the murders of at least four prostitutes in Whitechapel, East London, in 1888 1700-1800: Prince Wil...
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Liberating Sex in the Name of Science

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 10, 2004

Subjects:

Kinsey, Alfred C.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...situations" in the book are fictional, with the exception of the historical figures of Kinsey and his wife, Clara. But this proves...much of the population as can be covered - ordinary people, prostitutes, prison inmates, wealthy burghers, college professors, students...
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Slumming It, Fifties-Style Singer

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 19, 2004

Subjects:

Singer, Peter (Australian ethicist), Singer, Peter (Judge)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the full flush of Mrs Thatchers private housing crusade.The historical distance lends the whole play a renewed vigour in double...with black immigrants around Notting Hill, and procuring prostitutes. Rachman once shared a girlfriend with John Profumo, Macmillans...
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Slumming It, Fifties-Style

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 19, 2004

Subjects:

Singer, Peter (Australian ethicist), Singer, Peter (Judge)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...full flush of Mrs Thatchers private housing crusade. The historical distance lends the whole play a renewed vigour in double...rooms with black immigrants around Notting Hill and procuring prostitutes. Rachman once shared a girlfriend with John Profumo, Macmillans...
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Uganda Leads by Example on AIDS; Emphasis on Abstinence and Fidelity Slashes Infection Rate

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 13, 2003

Subjects:

Museveni, Yoweri

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that specific high-risk groups like prostitutes and their customers are unlikely to...approach is being discredited. "The historical approach to HIV has been little A, little...workers, soldiers, men who have sex with prostitutes and long-haul truck drivers, the president...

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Atget, EugÈne

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...painters for use as source material, and later to the Parisian historical monuments society. In making his photographs of the parks, lakes, shop windows, vendors, prostitutes, ragpickers, buildings, flower markets, sculpture gardens, doorways...
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Sierra Leone

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Politics in Sierra Leone, 1947 67 (1970); A. B. Sibthorpe, The History of Sierra Leone (4th ed. 1971); C. P. Foray, Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone (1977); G. O. Roberts, The Anguish of Third World Independence: The Sierra Leone Experience...

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