Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1982 - 11/30/1983

Funding Totals

$24,000.00 (approved)
$24,000.00 (awarded)


Changes in the Legal Definition of Prostitution in 19th Century and Early 20th Century Boston

FAIN: RS-20344-82

Barbara M. Hobson
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Cambridge, MA 02138)

To support research for an historical study of prostitution in Boston using court, prison and institutional records to examine the social origins and careers of prostitutes in the context of changing institutional responses to prostitution.