Six Progressive-Era Brothel Dramas
by
Katie N. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In early twentieth-century U.S. culture, sex sold. While known mainly for its social reforms, the Progressive Era was also obsessed with prostitution, sexuality, and the staging of women’s changing roles in the modern era. By the 1910s, plays about prostitution (or “brothel dramas”) had inundated...