Spectacular Wickedness – Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
General:
Name: Spectacular Wickedness – Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
Format: epub
Size: 2.81 MB
Book:
Title: Spectacular Wickedness
Author: Emily Epstein Landau
Language: English
Year: 2013
Subjects: History, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Nonfiction
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807150146
Total pages: 128 str.
Description:
From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans’s longstanding reputation for sin and sexual excess. This notorious neighborhood, 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 particular, Lulu White – a mixed-race prostitute and madam – created an image of herself and marketed it profitably to sell sex with light-skinned women to white men of means. In Spectacular Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.
Storyville’s founding was envisioned as a reform measure, an effort by the city’s business elite to curb and contain prostitution – namely, to segregate it. In 1890, the…
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