Exploring Feminism In Galveston’s Red Light District

Exploring Feminism In Galveston’s Red Light District

Few subjects are as contentious in feminism as the role of women sex workers, but Texas author Kimber Fountain masterfully dissects the subject in her book Galveston's Red Light District: A History of the Line.It started with a ghost tour. That’s not as weird as it sounds. Galveston has had a strange relationship with history for decades. It is simultaneously an old city (pirate and slave trader Jean Lafitte started a colony there in 1817) and a…