Histories of Sex Work Around the World

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-47932-3 (ISBN)

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This book offers snapshots of sex work in global history, examining how it has differed in different places around the world at different points in time. Focusing on certain moments in certain places and examinations of historical lives, it offers a diverse approach with a heavy focus on lived experience to see what selling sex was like instead of what it “meant”. Therefore, this book aims to argue that selling sex has been different at different times and present the diversity of experience in sex work throughout history, through case studies and comparisons.

Aimed for students, scholars, and general readers alike, Histories of Sex Work Around the World provides an introduction to the history of sex work within a global perspective. The case studies cover a wide range of topics and geographical regions – from North America to Mexico City to Vietnam, spanning across 12 different countries and over 400 years of history, before considering the future of sex work in the internet age.

Furthermore, this book features chapters with personal accounts from writers with experience selling sex, managing a brothel, or working as a dancer. It also includes a foreword from renowned writer and historian Julia Laite, author of bestselling book The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey.

Catherine Phipps is a lecturer in the History of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Bristol. Her research examines colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in North Africa, particularly prostitution and mixed marriages. She has a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Preface by Julia Laite

List of Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1

“These unfortunate women”: Sex Workers’ Responses to Violence in Late Sixteenth-Century Seville.

Clare Burgess

Chapter 2

Sex Magic, Sex Work: The Gendered Labor of Maria de Rivera and Isabel de Montoya in Puebla, Mexico in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

Amanda Summers

Chapter 3

Trans Sex Work in Colonial North America: A Herstory

Jamey Jesperson

Chapter 4

Prostitution in Eighteenth Century France

Nina Kushner

Chapter 5

Streetwalking and the city: un/gendering public spaces and counter-mapping Oxford and Cambridge.

Olivia Durand

Chapter 6

“Free me from this place of debauchery”: Voices, Agency and Sex Work in French Colonial Morocco

Catherine Phipps

Chapter 7

“A Constant Influx of Men, Day and Night”: Sex Trafficking and French Military Prostitution During the First Vietnam War (1946-54)

Marie Robin

Chapter 8

Selling Bodies in the Age of the Flesh: Bodies, Dance, and Postwar Japan

Alice Baldock

Chapter 9

Inside the Czech Sex Industry: Prostitution from 1948 to Today

Kateřina Šteklová

Chapter 10

Take a Picture, It Lasts Longer: Sex and the Selfie

Camille Waring

Chapter 11

Tracing Historical Disruptions in the Sex Worker Rights Movement in Late Colonial and Postcolonial India through Testimonies from within the Community

Shriya Patnaik

Chapter 12

Global Sex Work in the 20th-Century Gig Economy: Empowering Adult Content Creators through Labour Recognition

Rebecca Rose Nocella

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Gender and History
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	616 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-032-47932-9 / 1032479329
ISBN-13	978-1-032-47932-3 / 9781032479323
Zustand	Neuware