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georgina196's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
archytas's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Minchinton draws on a range of sources from newspaper articles and family historians, as well as the archeological digs of the site, to sketch out details of the heyday of Little Lon's sex work district. Little Lon was a largely matriachial world, with women owning most of the businesses large and small, and dominating the housing. The book divides into sections to cover both the broader environment, the specific legal and social conditions governing sex work and, for nearly half the book, the stories of individual women. The sources she draws on are scattered, making this more opaque than I wanted it to be at times, but I also appreciated Minchinton's unwillingess to fill in the gaps with her own imagination, and hence yet again taking voice away from women.
raqui's review against another edition
found it suuper interesting but at the same time was conflicted because the madams are kinda spoken about as these badass pseudofeminists when they were literally pimping other women are using their bodies for their own profit?
henrismum's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Take away: Okay, but I guess I expected more.
Narration: Fiona Macleod - good
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Listening to this book was a chore.
I'm glad I listened to this book.
I didn't want this book to end.
I could not wait to be done with this book.
Average, but better than anything I've written.
Narration: Fiona Macleod - good
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I'm glad I listened to this book.
I could not wait to be done with this book.
Average, but better than anything I've written.
jazmatz_'s review against another edition
dark
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Mind-blowingly good. Funny, informative, respectful, insightful, heartbreaking, anger-inducing.