ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clara Lemlich

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Alger- hard work brings success and upward mobility. Sante calls bs on alger myth- most become thieves. Crimp= awful, someone who works as a pimp or running prostitution, kills the prostitutes they employ. Use of whore emphasizes the conflict sex workers are in. Women outside at night assumed to be prostitutes. Crane- women on street at night are not always prostitutes, foreigners are not main issue of drug use/ dealer. Girls could be sold into by their families (they cannot afford to support them)- most parents could not support kids past age 12= most people did not graduate high school/ go to college. Can die from disease, murder, beatings= generation is 2 years. Maggie a girl of the street- story of a girl who was prostituted out by her brother, reluctant. There were charities that had homes for old prostitutes- none that tried to avoid them going down the path. Allen- religious front of brothel, distorts church.

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