The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York - Studies in the History of Sexuality

Amy Gilman Srebnick

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Amy Srebnick tells the story of the death of Mary Rogers, antebellum New York City's "Beautiful Cigar Girl". First believed murdered by rapists, later thought the victim of a failed abortion, Mary Rogers became a cause célèbre. Drawing upon the events that surrounded Rogers's death, the author weaves a sensational narrative of sex, violence, and the city, and treats such subjects as the changing roles of women, the Penny Press, and abortion.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195113921
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	07 Aug 1997
Language:	English
Number of pages:	218
Weight:	209g
Height:	202mm
Width:	136mm
Spine width:	17mm