Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. After the transcontinental railroad opened Utah to large-scale emigration and market capitalism, hundreds of women in Salt Lake City began to sell sex for a living, and a few earned small fortunes.
Businessmen and politicians developed a financial stake in prostitution, which was regulated by both Mormon and gentile officials. In this book, Jeffrey Nichols examines how prostitution became a focal point in the moral contest between Mormons and gentiles and aided in the construction of gender systems, moral standards, and the city's physical and economic landscapes.
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I saw it in the library, and decided I had to read it. It is an academic work the author teaches history at Salt Lake City's Westminster college , but it is also well-written and appears to be supported by solid research. I am not an academic, but it certainly looked to me as though the author did his homework and then some. This book does a good job of exploring the tensions that existed in Salt Lake City as a result of radically differing cultural opinions on religion, sex, and how the two ought to fit into society.
