An Uncommon Madam Among "Common" Prostitutes: Contextualizing Gender From Vagrancy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era San Antonio

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dc.contributor.advisorPliley, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorWales, Jonathan Forrest
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMontgomery, Rebecca
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBrown, Ronald
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-14T15:29:38Z
dc.date.available2020-05-14T15:29:38Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores American’s gendered understanding of vagrancy in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era San Antonio by examining how the courts and police as representatives of middle to upper-class viewpoints defined women who sold sex as more or less vagrant based on the number of men they sold sex to. From establishing the gendered limitations of contract freedom available to men and women in the Gilded Age, this thesis explores change over time into the Progressive Era by examining red-light abatement laws as gendered expression of Progressive views on male and female political participation in the conflict for municipal control between boss politics and progressives over vice during the 1910s.
dc.description.departmentHistory
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent106 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationWales, J. F. (2020). <i>An uncommon madam among "common" prostitutes: Contextualizing gender from vagrancy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era San Antonio</i> (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/9905
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectVagrancy
dc.subjectProstitution
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectMasculinity
dc.subjectThe gilded age
dc.subjectThe progressive era
dc.subjectSan Antonio
dc.subject.lcshSex--Social aspects--Texas--San Antonio--History
dc.titleAn Uncommon Madam Among "Common" Prostitutes: Contextualizing Gender From Vagrancy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era San Antonio
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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