Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Prostitution -- Disorderly City, Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia -- Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel “Riots” and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City -- Prostitution and Politics in Antebellum New Orleans -- Careers in Brothel Prostitution: St Paul 1865–1883 -- Historical Perspectives on the Study of Female Prostitution -- The White Slave Traffic Act: Historical Impact of a Federal Crime Policy on Women -- Free, Indentured, Enslaved: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America -- Sexual Commerce on the Comstock Lode -- Ameyuki-san: Japanese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America -- Capitalists with Rooms: Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865–1900 -- Medical Inspection of Prostitutes in America in the Nineteenth Century: The St. Louis Experiment and Its Sequel -- Changing American Attitudes toward Prostitution (1800–1920) -- The Progressives and the Prostitute -- Prostitution, the Alien Woman and the Progressive Imagination, 1910–1915 -- The Private Lives of Public Women: Prostitution in Butte, Montana, 1878–1917 -- Seduced and Abandoned in an American City: Cleveland and Its Fallen Women, 1869–1936 -- Tacit Acceptance: Respectable Americans and Segregated Prostitution, 1870–1910 -- Copyright Information -- Index