Tag: crime patterns
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coercion & criminality (morality and sex work part four)
That’s right, she was a Rosie the Riveter. So were MANY of these women. We should really revise our collective understanding of Rosie the Riveter and think more about what happened to the actual women those images stand in for: many were in the sex industry both before and after the war. After all the…
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“just like any other business”? (morality and sex work part two)
From time to time, Wallace makes it onto another one of those “cool small towns in America” lists, here, #38. Although this latest list celebrates the “rich history and culture” you find in small towns, it fails to plug the Oasis Bordello Museum, which was mentioned in Travel + Leisure’s 2012 list and Budget Travel’s 2009 list (which also features my current town,…
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about the shoshone county sheriff’s office files
“Definitely a screwball.” — Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office file #474 “Do not let Betty return until she understands she is going to have to behave herself.” — SCSO file #546 One of the items on my research to-do list: type up my hand-written research notes. Most of the work I did over the summer already made…