Adult Education Quarterly
Volume 64, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 285-305

A Storyville Education: Spatial Practices and the Learned Sex Trade in the City That Care Forgot (Article)

Platt R.E.* , Hill L.H.
  • a The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States
  • b The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States

Abstract

Storyville, the legalized red-light district of New Orleans (1897-1917), was a designated space containing informal opportunities for learning in which its residents practiced the sex trade. Although Storyville was created to regulate prostitution, prostitutes and madams learned the city’s legal system, politics, and economics to survive in a socially constructed space. Using primary and secondary sources and informed by theory, including informal learning, spatial production, and critical and feminist geography, this study explores the adult learning that took place in Storyville. © The Author(s) 2014.

Author Keywords

informal learning New Orleans prostitution critical geography feminist geography Storyville

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907205362&doi=10.1177%2f0741713614539030&partnerID=40&md5=a33f07c7843f97202cd024703706fca5
DOI: 10.1177/0741713614539030
ISSN: 07417136
Original Language: English