Aaron Chapman
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Vancouver ViceCrime and Spectacle in the City's West End |
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the … | Aaron Chapman | 256 | 2021 | View |
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From NEW! Prologue and IntroductionThe Davie Street Blues From: Vancouver Vice |
In the prologue and introduction, Chapman frames his narrative around two events in West End Vancouver: the discovery of a body in in 1984, and the unveiling of a memorial to sex workers in 2016. | Aaron Chapman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Electricity and SexFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter provides a history of the West End, with a focus on the importance of electricity and sex in the neighbourhood’s development. | Aaron Chapman | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Vice and the Tumbling DiceFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, the author details the history of the policing of vice in Vancouver, and the corruption that often accompanied these efforts. | Aaron Chapman | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Call Girls and BoysFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter explores the history of the sex trade in the West End,from the 1930s to 1975. | Aaron Chapman | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Down the ToiletFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman focuses on two vice cops who were surveilling the English Bay Bathhouse in attempt to crack down on cruising in the West End. | Aaron Chapman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Bars and BathhousesFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter concentrates on Faces, an early West End gay club, and Wayne Harris, a club member who later became the focus of a major vice squad investigation. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Dirty Books and Dirty LooksFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman describes the Vice squad’s efforts to bring down the Wayne Harris crime ring, and how these were disrupted by the new mayor of Vancouver’s focus on … | Aaron Chapman | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! The Fire This TimeFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter focuses on the activities of "hustlers," the often-underage male sex workers in the West End. | Aaron Chapman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! FramedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter details the creation of a new special police squad to address the rising number of sex workers on the streets of the West End. By merely displacing sex workers, this squad shifted … | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! The FixFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman explores an apparent suicide that may have been linked to Wayne Harris. | Aaron Chapman | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! A Bad CollarFrom: Vancouver Vice |
This chapter examines the West End at the beginning of the 1980s, a situation Maclean’s magazine called "a curbside brothel open from noon to 4 a.m., seven days a week." It also … | Aaron Chapman | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! ComprimisedFrom: Vancouver Vice |
In this chapter, Chapman described the end of the West End sex trade, and the consequences of this for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. | Aaron Chapman | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! EpilogueFrom: Vancouver Vice |
The epilogue considers the subsequent history of the West End, from the AIDS epidemic to the dramatic transformation of the built neighborhood. | Aaron Chapman | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
