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Book Woman of Ill Fame

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  • Author : Erika Mailman
  • Publisher : Heyday
  • Release : 2006
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  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Woman of Ill Fame written by Erika Mailman and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Looking for a better life, Nora Simms sails from the East Coast to gold rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her fellow "women of ill fame," Nora grows uneasy with how closely linked all of the victims are to her. Even her rise to the top of her profession and a move to the fashionable part of town don't shelter her from the danger, and she must distinguish friend from foe in a race to discover the identity of the killer. "WOMAN OF ILL FAME deftly sidesteps all the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold clichA[a¬As you think you see coming as it follows its heroine through the muddy two-fisted brawl that was gold rush San Francisco. The book starts with a bang, and for me it never lets up; I enjoyed the hell out of it"--Tamim Ansary

Book The Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Download or read book The Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexual Misbehavior in the Civil War

Download or read book Sexual Misbehavior in the Civil War written by Thomas P. Lowry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over three million young men left home, shouldered rifles, and set about killing one another in the 1860s. Behind, they left wives and sweethearts. The 50,000 books about the war have told us in meticulous detail about the strategy, tactics, weapons, uniforms, canteens, famous generals, religious beliefs, personality quirks, fortifications, battles, sieges, gunboats, medical care, and recruiting policies. The causes of the war have been endlessly analyzed. The surviving veterans wrote hundreds of memoirs, sometimes inflating their own heroism and importance. What rarely appears in this literature is any mention of sex, in spite of most soldiers being in their early twenties, a time of manly vigor. The late 19th century brought the ascendancy of Victorian prudishness and hypocrisy. The Comstock laws sent men to prison for mailing contraceptive advice. Just advice! Whatever willingness there might have been to reveal wartime hanky-panky evaporated in the tenor of the time and the admiring gaze of the veteran’s growing grandchildren. The following scene would be unimaginable: the old veteran sits by the stove in the country store. His long white beard covers his tattered vest. A faded medal graces his chest. On the floor are the shavings from his most recent whittling. A tiny child pipes up: “Tell us about the war, grandpa.” “Well, Jimmy, there was this pretty little whore in Memphis...” Never happen. Material collected twenty years ago resulted in the author’s 1994 book, The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell – Sex in the Civil War, which presented everything that was then known on the subject. There had been no previous book on Civil War sex. Since then, the author and his wife, Beverly, have read over 90,000 court-martials and countless letters and diary entries. What emerges is that sexual activity was far more common and public than our previous research or any memoir had ever revealed. The records come from literally every corner of the country: Key West, Washington Territory, Los Angeles, and Maine. The malfeasants are both officers and enlisted men. The victims range from six-year girls to sixty-year old grandmothers. The soldiers carried with them lewd books and obscene photos. Even more striking is the universality of houses of prostitution. Every village and every city neighborhood has at least one such—and everybody knew it. They knew the addresses of the houses. They knew the names of the madams and the names of many of the “girls.” Most of the witnesses for the trials had visited the houses, for the usual reasons. The military police tramped through the houses, looking for deserters. Rape, thought to be rare during the war, was not that rare. An unexpected finding was that Union soldiers, who were supposedly freeing the slaves, were quick to rape black women. An even more surprising finding was that the Confederate army had a policy of not prosecuting rapists, whether the victim was black or white. The inventor of the Graham cracker had, in 1834, written a book claiming that masturbation caused severe illness, even death. This idea had taken root in the medical profession and many army doctors testified that a defendant was not guilty because of “insanity from self-abuse.” The Union army’s largest hospital listed dozens men, dead from “masturbation.” The famous ship Monitor had a thick iron turret. In other such ships, the sound-proof turret proved a convenient place for old sailors to rape young boys. A Union cavalry colonel was tried for sexually assaulted both men and women. Evidence for Civil War homosexuality was unknown until now. Even more astonishing stories appear in the records: sex with horses, sheep, even with chickens and turkeys. There are records of obscene tattoos, foul cursing by Winfield Scott Hancock, black and white mistresses of Confederate generals, even many records of “fornication and bastardy” in the little village of Gettysburg. Ads fo

Book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States  Abandonment to Eviction

Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States Abandonment to Eviction written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to  1911  Contained in the American State Reports   Volumes 1 to  140  Inclusive  and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein  Abandonment to Eviction

Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to 1911 Contained in the American State Reports Volumes 1 to 140 Inclusive and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein Abandonment to Eviction written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Precedents of Indictments and Special Pleas

Download or read book Precedents of Indictments and Special Pleas written by Charles Russell Train and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bouvier s Law Dictionary

Download or read book Bouvier s Law Dictionary written by John Bouvier and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Massachusetts Digest

Download or read book The Massachusetts Digest written by Edmund Hatch Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Northeastern Reporter

Download or read book The Northeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.

Book Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts Bay

Download or read book Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts Bay written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annotated Cases  American and English

Download or read book Annotated Cases American and English written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts

Download or read book Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Freedom of the Streets

Download or read book The Freedom of the Streets written by Sharon E. Wood and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.

Book The Texas criminal reports

Download or read book The Texas criminal reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Reporter

Download or read book Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.