Disorderly Women: Prostitution in Ante-Bellum Philadelphia UNTIL THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, the wards of Philadelphia were a disorderly mixture of the rich, middling and poor; of native and immigrant; of black and white. Amidst the rush of growth and change, there was little room for privacy, no premium on decorum. The city was an urban frontier; people were bound together in neighborhoods where they lived and worked, and as time and money permitted, played. Such boundaries as distinguished between races were evident and deepening. The modern city was to bring with it more rigid rules of behavior and formal standards that set groups off from each other. But this development was neither simple nor smooth. The reshaping of the old city was as much a reshaping of the people who lived in it as it was a recasting of the urban horizon. It was a struggle fought many times over between the old habits of some and the new priorities of others. Prostitutes—or disorderly women as they were frequently called— were familiar figures in the landscape of the disorderly city. They moved freely and openly in parks, on the streets, and in places of amusement. Along with paupers and peddlers, they used public spaces to their own advantage. Like more substantial citizens, they sometimes came before local magistrates to complain of wrongs against them; on other occasions, they might have been brought before the bench as vagrants and thieves. They were "public women," symbols of longstanding sexual disorder, tolerated as necessary nuisances. This essay attempts to re-create in ethnographic style the "disorderly" world in which prostitutes lived and to examine their lives and careers in the context of those of their peers among the laboring
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{"title":"Book Review: Loyal Whigs and Revolutionaries: The Making of the Revolution in New York, 1765-1776","authors":"R. East","doi":"10.2307/1857569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1857569","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/1857569","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68573202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1974-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120080102
Charles Debenedetti
{"title":"The $100,000 American Peace Award of 1924","authors":"Charles Debenedetti","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120080102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120080102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1974-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64412118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1973-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim070070023
B. Ambacher
{"title":"George m. Dallas, Cuba, and the Election of 1856","authors":"B. Ambacher","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim070070023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim070070023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1973-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64407878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1967-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim070080082
Sister Theresa A. Donovan
{"title":"President Pierce's Ministers at the Court of St. James","authors":"Sister Theresa A. Donovan","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim070080082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim070080082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1967-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64407941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1958-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim020150012
O. T. Murphy
{"title":"The Battle of Germantown and the Franco-American Alliance of 1778","authors":"O. T. Murphy","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim020150012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim020150012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64629645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1953-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim030310360
Douglas H. Maynard
{"title":"The Escape of the Florida","authors":"Douglas H. Maynard","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim030310360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim030310360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1953-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64629958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomas Parke's student life in England and Scotland, 1771-1773.","authors":"W J Bell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1951-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28296853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of American Diaries Written Prior to the Year 1861. Compiled by William Matthews with the assistance of Roy Harvey Pearce.","authors":"L. Butterfield","doi":"10.1093/jahist/33.2.357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/33.2.357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43963,"journal":{"name":"PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1946-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/jahist/33.2.357","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60935022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In writing this book Dr. E. W. Mumford, Secretary of the University, has given me invaluable assistance at every turn and I find it difficult to express adequately my sense of obligation and gratitude to him. I can only say that without his advice and help, generously offered and unsparingly given, I would not have begun and could not have finished the book. Other officers of the University and of the alumni societies, especially Dean Pepper, Mr. George E. Nitzsche, Recorder, Mr. C. S. Thompson, Librarian, Mr. C. J. Miel, Manager of the University Fund and Mr. Horace M. Lippincott, Editor of the Pennsylvania Gazette and General Magazine have offered and given me much help. Colleagues in the Faculty, some of them now in retirement, responded promptly, fully, and thoughtfully to my questions about their respective departments. I collected in this way much information that it has proved impossible, unfortunately, to include in this book. I hope they will not be disappointed. Limitations of space soon asserted themselves and it became evident that a single volume could include little more than an account of the establishment and early circumstances of departments that have had a long and interesting history, and a mere mention rather than a full discussion of much that was significant. Limitations of time stood equally in the way. The two years or somewhat more that have been given to the preparation of the history did not give time to gain familiarity with such a complex body as the University has come to be, beyond the vague knowledge gained by one who has grown up with it. The volume entitled The University of Pennsylvania Today provides a partial corrective to these deficiencies, and contains much material I have with a heavy heart laid aside. Comments All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. Reprinted from History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940, by Edward Potts Cheyney (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1940). This book is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/penn_history/5
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