Prostitution and Writing: How Documents Kept the Women of Butte, Montana in the Tenderloin
Class
Article
Department
English
Faculty Mentor
Kerin Holt
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract
My paper will examine documents from historical archives that address prostitution in Butte, Montana during the early 20th century. I will assess how the power structure in Butte conspired to keep prostitution alive well into the 1980's. By examining legislation, newspaper accounts, and business correspondence I intend to show how the document type and the wording used in it marginalized women and kept them subservient to the businessmen that controlled the flesh-trade in the Montana mining town.
Start Date
4-9-2015 10:00 AM
Prostitution and Writing: How Documents Kept the Women of Butte, Montana in the Tenderloin
My paper will examine documents from historical archives that address prostitution in Butte, Montana during the early 20th century. I will assess how the power structure in Butte conspired to keep prostitution alive well into the 1980's. By examining legislation, newspaper accounts, and business correspondence I intend to show how the document type and the wording used in it marginalized women and kept them subservient to the businessmen that controlled the flesh-trade in the Montana mining town.