Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
Emily Epstein Landau
(Author)
Description
From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city infamous for both prostitution and interracial intimacy. In Spectacular Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district by looking at prostitution through the lens of patriarchy and demonstrates how gendered racial ideologies proved crucial to the remaking of southern society in the aftermath of the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals that Storyville's salacious and eccentric subculture played an important role in the formation of New Orleans's identity in the New South era.Product Details
Price
$29.95
$27.55
Publisher
LSU Press
Publish Date
March 21, 2018
Pages
336
Dimensions
7.81 X 0.74 X 9.17 inches | 0.97 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780807169261
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About the Author
Emily Epstein Landau lives in Washington, D.C., with her family.
Reviews
Historians of race, gender, and sexuality will learn much from Landau's explanation of how vice precincts such as Storyville reinforced the patriarchal and racial logic of segregation, and challenged it in the most subversive (and intimate) of ways.--Journal of American History
Landau's book is successful in breaking down myths about the city's history under Jim Crow while at the same time illuminating the differences between New Orleans and other southern cities.--Journal of the History of Sexuality
Landau's book is successful in breaking down myths about the city's history under Jim Crow while at the same time illuminating the differences between New Orleans and other southern cities.--Journal of the History of Sexuality