Histories of Sex Work Around the World

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