Ruth Rosen is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. From Necessary to Social EvilChapter 2. The Progressive ReactionChapter 3. Prostitution: Symbol of an AgeChapter 4. The Lady and the ProstituteChapter 5. The Commercialized World of ProstitutionChapter 6. The Subculture of ProstitutionChapter 7. White Slavery: Myth or Reality?Chapter 8. The Lost Sisterhood: The Causes of ProstitutionEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come. Times Literary Supplement