Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women
Subtitle: illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans
By: Judith Kelleher Schafer.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; Louisiana State Univ Pr; Brand: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780807133972
Subjects: Prostitution -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; Brothels -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; Sex-oriented businesses -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; Sex customs -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions
Description: "When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony?s moral tone, the governor responded, “If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all.” Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few attractions to entice respectable women as residents. King Louis XIV of France solved the population problem in 1721 by emptying Paris?s La Salp?tri?re prison of many of its most notorious prostitutes and convicts and sending them to Louisiana. Many of these women continued to ply their trade in New Orleans" -- inside cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Selling sex and the law; title: "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line; title: The sexual exploitation of children; title: Infamous public women; title: Larceny and robbery among prostitutes; title: Violent lives; title: The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : state of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker; title: Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans; title: "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."