Graduation Year
2017
Date of Submission
4-2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
American Studies
Reader 1
Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Breider, Sophie, ""The Best Bad Things": An Analytical History of the Madams of Gold Rush San Francisco" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1595.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1595
