I've got to make my livin'
Subtitle: black women's sex work in turn-of-the-century Chicago
By: Cynthia M. Blair.
Series: Historical studies of urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780226055985
Subjects: Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; African American women -- Sexual behavior -- Illinois -- Chicago
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A class we have barely mentioned"; title: "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence; title: Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900; title: Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability; title: Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915; title: Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920; title: Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies; title: "This way of livin' sure is hard."