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- catalog abstract ""Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power offers insights into the complex history of prostitution in Salt Lake City. After the transcontinental railroad opened in Utah to large-scale migration and market capitalism, hundreds of women in Salt Lake City began to sell sex for a living and a few earned small fortunes. Some of the city's best-known businessmen and politicians developed a financial stake in prostitution, which was regulated by both Mormon and gentile officials." "Jeffrey Nichols examines how prostitution became a focal point in the moral contest between Mormon and gentiles and aided in the construction of gender systems, moral standards, and the city's physical and economic landscapes. The authors shows how both groups used prostitution as a weapon in the battle for political and economic power during the city's formative years. Gentiles likened polygamy to prostitution and accused polygamous Mormons of violating Christian norms of family structure and sexual behavior. Non-Mormon women in particular denounced plural marriage as a double standard that exploited women and favored men. Defending their church and its ideals, Mormons blamed gentiles for introducing the sinful business of prostitution into their honorable city." "The controversy waned when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began to move away from polygamy in the 1890s, but resurfaced with the rise of the anti-Mormon American Party that sponsored the Stockade prostitution district. Nichols traces the interplay of prostitution and reform through World War I, when Mormon and gentile moral codes converged at the expense of prostitutes. He also considers how polygamy and religious conflict distinguished Salt Lake City from other cities struggling to abolish prostitution in the Progressive Era."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12600692.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Celestial marriage" vs. "polygamic lascivious cohabitation" -- "Women of the town" -- "The system in vogue" -- "An extremely clever woman" -- "The future occupants of the houses of ill-repute".".
- catalog description ""Jeffrey Nichols examines how prostitution became a focal point in the moral contest between Mormon and gentiles and aided in the construction of gender systems, moral standards, and the city's physical and economic landscapes. The authors shows how both groups used prostitution as a weapon in the battle for political and economic power during the city's formative years. Gentiles likened polygamy to prostitution and accused polygamous Mormons of violating Christian norms of family structure and sexual behavior. Non-Mormon women in particular denounced plural marriage as a double standard that exploited women and favored men. Defending their church and its ideals, Mormons blamed gentiles for introducing the sinful business of prostitution into their honorable city."".
- catalog description ""Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power offers insights into the complex history of prostitution in Salt Lake City. After the transcontinental railroad opened in Utah to large-scale migration and market capitalism, hundreds of women in Salt Lake City began to sell sex for a living and a few earned small fortunes. Some of the city's best-known businessmen and politicians developed a financial stake in prostitution, which was regulated by both Mormon and gentile officials."".
- catalog description ""The controversy waned when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began to move away from polygamy in the 1890s, but resurfaced with the rise of the anti-Mormon American Party that sponsored the Stockade prostitution district. Nichols traces the interplay of prostitution and reform through World War I, when Mormon and gentile moral codes converged at the expense of prostitutes. He also considers how polygamy and religious conflict distinguished Salt Lake City from other cities struggling to abolish prostitution in the Progressive Era."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-238) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 247 p., [6] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "025202768X (Cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "Utah Salt Lake City".
- catalog subject "306.74/09792/258 21".
- catalog subject "HQ146.S27 N525 2002".
- catalog subject "Polygamy Utah Salt Lake City History.".
- catalog subject "Prostitution Utah Salt Lake City History.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Celestial marriage" vs. "polygamic lascivious cohabitation" -- "Women of the town" -- "The system in vogue" -- "An extremely clever woman" -- "The future occupants of the houses of ill-repute".".
- catalog title "Prostitution, polygamy, and power : Salt Lake City, 1847-1918 / Jeffrey Nichols.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".