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Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Poutanen, Mary Anne

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Series: Études d'Histoire Du Québec / Studies on the History of Quebec, Book 30

Canadian HistoryGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0773545344
ISBN13: 9780773545342
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jul 10 2015
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house themselves and their families. Beyond Brutal Passions is a close study of the women who were accused of marketing sex, their economic and social susceptibilities, and the strategies they employed to resist authority and assert their own agency.

Referencing newspapers, parish registers, census returns, coroners' reports, city directories, documents of Catholic and Protestant institutions, police books, and court records, Mary Anne Poutanen reveals how these women confronted limited alternatives and how they fought against established authority in the pursuit of their livelihoods. She details these women's lives not only as prostitutes but also as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who reconstructed the bonds of kinship and solidarity.

An insightful history of prostitution, Beyond Brutal Passions explores the complicated relationships between women accused of prostitution and the society in which they lived and worked.

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