Synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution. In so doing, Rebecca Yamin and Donna Seifert construct a more realistic and complicated picture of daily life for working-class women involved in commercial sex.

The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points, New York City's most notorious neighborhood, and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill.