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‘To indulge their carnal appetites’: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth Century Montreal, 1810-1842
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‘To indulge their carnal appetites’: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth Century Montreal, 1810-1842
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| Abstract |
The author focuses on the complex relationships between Montreal prostitutes in the first half of the nineteenth century, their family members, neighbours, and others who accused them of morality offences, and the criminal justice system which processed the complaints. Using judicial records and an array of other sources, the author seeks to reconstruct these relationships, to explore how the women manoeuvred within the criminal justice system, and to reconstitute their lives. The author found that there was no single compelling reason why women entered prostitution. She argues that their decision to work as prostitutes was influenced by their social class and ethnicity. Many chose prostitution as a temporary solution to pressing economic issues, some as a long-term solution to problems associated with chronic alcoholism and homelessness, for others, prostitution provided an opportunity for upward mobility. The author found that most of the women arrested for street prostitutionin the 1830s and 1840s were non-Francophones, often of Irish descent, single, and arrested only once.
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PhD dissertation
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Université de Montréal
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Montréal
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1997
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xix-330p.
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en
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Poutanen, Mary Anne. “‘To Indulge Their Carnal Appetites’: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth Century Montreal, 1810-1842.” PhD dissertation, Université de Montréal, 1997. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq26719.pdf.
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