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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"red-light district"”.
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Dirty Pictures—Not for Sale: Re-reading Bellocq’s Storyville Portraits
… at the turn of the century, the Storyville red light district is hardly part of contemporary American consciousness today. Part of my work involves an evaluation of what a lack of archival resources does to perceptions of Storyville and more broadly, the stereotypical late Victorian “fallen …
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Milneburg, New Orleans: An Anthropological History of a Troubled Neighborhood
… resort, the poor-man's Riviera, a seedy red-light district, a cradle of jazz, a village, a swath of suburbia and a neighborhood. It has been destroyed eight times due to storms, fires, and civic or governmental neglect. Each time its residents have rebuilt it. In its last iteration as a …
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Revolutions and 'Rough Cuts': Bodily Technologies for Regulating Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
… recently, popular academic debates have centered on the revolutionary sexual practices among a subculture of upper-middle class Tehrani youth. Yet the scope of practices, methods, and technologies used to regulate and express sexuality in contemporary Iran are manifold and diverse, conflictive …
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Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries
… In the second half of the eighteenth century a red-light district was established in Shiraz where a large number of urban and provincial courtesans were gathered catering to the refined taste of the nobility and military commanders. These courtesans were famous for their beauty, seductive …
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Contested landscapes: An exploration into street-based sex work and its implications for urban design in Christchurch, New Zealand : A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture
… guidelines are needed in New Zealand to help reduce tensions associated with street-based sex work, increase street safety, and grow more locally diverse communities. A desktop literature review of international experiences reveals three key themes: Urban Design, Governance and Enforcement, …