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Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls

Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930

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Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls

Auteur(s): Jan Mackell
Narrateur(s): Laura Jennings
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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.

The book is published by University of New Mexico Press.

©2004 University of New Mexico Press (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks Amériques Criminologie Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale Questions de genre Sciences sociales États-Unis

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"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)
"The topic is interesting, the author knowledgeable, the presentation nonjudgmental...All sorts of interesting facts pop up in this work." ( USA Today)
"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." ( Roundup Magazine)
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This book has a fascinating subject matter, but fails to deliver in several significant respects. Its biggest problems are poor narration, bad writing and lack of context. The first several chapters read like a dry summary of archival research. This might be academically useful, but it is extremely dull listening. There are only so many times you can listen to a list of girls registered as employees for such and such a madam, before you just have to throw up your hands in frustration. The breathless narration doesn't help either, and these chapters emerge as an odd jumble of facts with little apparent connection or meaning. While the later chapters pick up in interest - the discussion of the town of Ramona is particularly interesting, the book never shakes its larger problems.

Mackell, is extremely detailed, but doesn't fit those details into a coherent narrative. Here are a couple examples to illustrate what I mean:
1. Mackell talks about prostitutes following mining boom towns, but she never gives an overview of the state's economy.
2. Several of the stories she tells discusses laudanum, but she does not talk about how opiate used in context.
3. Her most interesting chapters follow the the conflict between the red light districts and groups like the Women's Christian Temperance Union, but she doesn't write about these groups in their own right.

Ultimately, I gave this book 2 stars rather than one or zero, because many of the stories were interesting and humanizing and because the description of the decline of the red light districts was sadly compelling.

Lacks context and has a bad narrator

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