Author: Hobson, Barbara Meil,
Title: Uneasy Virtue: the politics of prostitution and the American reform tradition.
Description: NY, Basic Books, ((1987). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. For over 150 yeaqrs, America has swung betwen all-out crusades against prostitution and virtual indifference to it. Cultural. conflicts over public versus private spheres, freemarket versus govt regulation, reform versus punitive condemnation, relations between the sexes. Poor females, often immigrant or nonwhite, the prostitute herself, has always borne the brunt of antiprostitution activities.

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