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"The Best Bad Things": An Analytical History Of The Madams Of Gold Rush San Francisco, Sophie Breider
"The Best Bad Things": An Analytical History Of The Madams Of Gold Rush San Francisco, Sophie Breider
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis analyzes the differences between the fictionalized madam of the American West and the historical madam are analyzed to understand how racial and gender hierarchies normalized themselves in the American West and disempowered women and people of color. This thesis uses Gold Rush San Francisco, and two madams, as a case study of this phenomenon.