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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press

ISBN-100826333435

ISBN-139780826333438

eBay Product ID (ePID)61064028

Product Key Features

Book TitleBrothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls : Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Sociology / General, Customs & Traditions, United States / General, Prostitution & Sex Trade

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorJan Mackell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews""Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls" is an interesting piece of Colorado's popular history and enhances our understanding of some of the social relations that formed within the state's numerous mining communities.", "The topic is interesting--or should one say, "titillating"--the author knowledgeable; the presentation non-judgmental and the work, scholarly with end notes, a bibliography and index. . . well-written.", . . . a godsend for screenwriters and novelists looking for plots. . . MacKell has been an industrious researcher., Delicacy, humor, respect, and compassion are among the merits of this book. Although other authors have flirted with Colorado's commercial sex, Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview. She has been researching these elusive women for the last fifteen years. Such persistence allows her to offer rich detail on shady ladies who rarely used their real names or even stuck with the same professional name for long., ." . . a godsend for screenwriters and novelists looking for plots. . . MacKell has been an industrious researcher.", ""Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls" tells a rarely told tale, of the "tainted" women who helped settle the west.", The topic is interesting, the author knowledgeable, the presentation nonjudgmental...All sorts of interesting facts pop up in this work., The depth of MacKell's research brings the stories of scores of individual women to life. . . . Recommended., "Now this is a book you can read in one sitting. Not that it is less than scholarly; it is comprehensive, extensively researched, well organized, well written, but most of all it is readable. In fact, it is compelling. . . . "Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls" is a fascinating book because it puts a human face on prostitution.", Neither romanticizing nor ridiculing these women, MacKell recounts both their tragedies and occasional happy endings. While detailing the realities of the business, she also creates vivid portraits of some participants., ""Brothels, Bordellos, & Bad Girls" is an extensively researched local history, balancing both primary and secondary sources with intriguing references to interviews with (and respect for the privacy of) living descendents. . . . MacKell gives a well-deserved human face to these hard-working western pioneers who, in their time, were ignored as human beings and seen only as whores.", This is serious social history at its best; MacKell combines skilled use of carefully collected data with an engrossing analysis of the many forces in play when women choose a way of life that seldom ends in true reward or real independence., Delicacy, humor, respect and compassion are among the merits of MacKell's treatment of this touchy subject. Her 15 years of research unearthed revealing details.

Dewey Decimal306.74/082/09788

SynopsisProstitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City, and similar boomtown communities. She used census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property records, marriage records, and court records to document and trace the movements of the women over the course of their careers, uncovering work histories, medical problems, and numerous relocations from town to town. She traces many to their graves, through years filled with abuse, disease, narcotics, and violence. MacKell has unearthed numerous colorful and often touching stories, like that of the boy raised in a brothel who was invited to play with a neighbor's children and replied, "No, my mother is a whore and says I am to stay at home." "Delicacy, humor, respect, and compassion are among the merits of this book. Although other authors have flirted with Colorado's commercial sex, Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview. She has been researching these elusive women for the last fifteen years. Such persistence allows her to offer rich detail on shady ladies who rarely used their real names or even stuck with the same professional name for long."--Thomas J. Noel, from the Introduction, Prostitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City, and similar boomtown communities. She used census data, Sanborn maps, city directories, property records, marriage records, and court records to document and trace the movements of the women over the course of their careers, uncovering work histories, medical problems, and numerous relocations from town to town. She traces many to their graves, through years filled with abuse, disease, narcotics, and violence.MacKell has unearthed numerous colorful and often touching stories, like that of the boy raised in a brothel who was invited to play with a neighbor's children and replied, "No, my mother is a whore and says I am to stay at home." "Delicacy, humor, respect, and compassion are among the merits of this book. Although other authors have flirted with Colorado's commercial sex, Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview. She has been researching these elusive women for the last fifteen years. Such persistence allows her to offer rich detail on shady ladies who rarely used their real names or even stuck with the same professional name for long."--Thomas J. Noel, from the Introduction, This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of working girls in mining towns such as Cripple Creek., This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.