J300: Historical Perspectives on Prostitution

prostitution placename history (eg, prostitution new york history)
prostitutes placename history
prostitution history 19th century
prostitution history to 1500
prostitution history sources (for primary source materials)

II. Finding Secondary Sources
Check these resources for other scholars' research on your topic:

Historical Abstracts (includes America: History and Life) - searchable online index to scholarly journals in history. Use prostitution as a subject term; use the advanced search screen to limit your results by language, time period, etc.

Gender Studies Database - searchable online index to journals and books on gender issues

GenderWatch - online full text collection of journal articles on gender issues 

III. Collections of Primary Sources

History of Women microfilm collection - a huge collection of books and pamphlet on women's history. Location:  Wells Library Microforms HQ45.  Online guide available (Select "History of Women" as collection title before you search.)

Defining Gender Online - digitized collection of British primary sources on gender issues, 1450-1910. Try a keyword search for prostitution (can limit by century)

Victorian Women Writers Project - searchable, full text collection of fiction and non-fiction works by 19th-century British women (try keywords searches; also the subject terms you used in IUCAT)

Women and Social Movements - digitized collection of primary sources documenting women's involvement in social causes in the U.S., 1600-2000. To find materials on prostitution, look under Subjects-->Narrow Topics-->Prostitution OR look under Social Movements-->specific movements or groups (eg Boston Female Reform Society)

IV. Historical Newspapers, Magazines and Journals
Search these digitized indexes and collections for historical press and academic coverage of your topic. Use date limits to find contemporary accounts. Depending on what you're looking for, you'll need think about using the vocabulary of the time period as keywords--such as "fallen women" "magdalenes" and other euphemisms.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index - searchable index to 19th-century British and American publications, including popular magazines, books, scientific publications, and British parliamentary papers.

19th Century Historical United States Newspapers  - digitized, searchable collection of historical US newspapers. Also available: Early American Newspapers Series I, II & III (covers different papers; includes 17th and 18th-century publications as well as 19th-century) and New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and the [London]Times Digital Archive (complete archives of these major papers, back to their first issues)

American Periodicals Series Online - digitized, searchable collection of popular magazines and journals, 1740-1900

Periodicals Index Online - online searchable index (with some full text) to scholarly and scientific journals in English and other western European languages, from their earliest issues (good coverage of the 19th century). Also available: JSTOR (all full text, but covers a smaller number of journals)