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Platt, R. Eric; Hill, Lilian H. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
Storyville, the legalized red-light district of New Orleans (1897-1917), was a designated space containing informal opportunities for learning in which its residents practiced the sex trade. Although Storyville was created to regulate prostitution, prostitutes and madams learned the city's legal system, politics, and economics to survive in a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Informal Education, Critical Theory, Geography