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The Bordello
by Lee Durbin |
March 21, 2002 at
4:30pm
UC312
"This presentation
examines an ongoing research project on the history of
prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War,
1861-65. Most histories of the war dismiss the subject of wartime
prostitution with a few brief sentences, if they mention it at
all. And American historians who study nineteenth-century
prostitution usually concentrate on the Western frontier in the
late nineteenth century, or on a major Northern city, such as
Boston or New York in the antebellum period. This project examines
prostitution in the capital of the Confederate States of America
(Richmond, Va.) and, hence, contributes to our understanding of
the profession in the south during the war. It looks at the
profession on the basis of the gender and racial dynamics of the
Civil War South. [Barber's] article on this topic will be
published in 2002 an anthology on working women in the South from
UNC Press."
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