{"product_id":"the-underworld-sewer","title":"The Underworld Sewer","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFor twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and moving to Omaha, she turned to \"throwing a searchlight on the underworld,\" including the \"cribs\" of Nebraska’s largest city. \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Sewer\u003c\/i\u003e, based on her own experience in the profession, blazes with a kind of honesty unavailable to more conventional moral reformers.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eOriginally published in 1909, \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Sewer\u003c\/i\u003e asks why \"the social evil\" is universally considered necessary or inevitable. Washburn minces no words in exposing the conditions that perpetuate prostitution: the greed and graft of landlords, pimps, alcohol vendors, dope dealers, police officers, city administrators, and politicians; the competition for circulation by sensation-seeking newspapers; the indifference or intolerance of law-abiding, church-going citizens; the false modesty that prevents family discussion of venereal disease; the double standard that allows men to indulge their sexuality but punishes women who do so.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Josie Washburn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615796584828,"sku":"9780803297975","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780803297975_b8d339bf-e2ac-425f-8afb-9b99dd65430e.jpg?v=1726576756","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-underworld-sewer","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}