Kris’s Reviews > Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 > Status Update

"In Chicago, for instance, during the summer of 1913 when Rector's cabaret presented female performers attired in flesh-colored tights, Mayor Carter G. Harrison Jr. grew so incensed that he pushed legislation through the city council prohibiting such performances and forbidding the patrons of restaurants and cafes to dance on the premises." (56)

I've made it out of the red-light districts, and into the cabarets. :)

Another one for my history of sexuality class this summer - we'll discuss it next week.