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 LaiteList of ContributorsIntroductionChapter 1“These unfortunate women”: Sex Workers’ Responses to Violence in Late Sixteenth-Century Seville.Clare BurgessChapter 2Sex Magic, Sex Work: The Gendered Labor of Maria de Rivera and Isabel de Montoya in Puebla, Mexico in the Mid-Seventeenth CenturyAmanda SummersChapter 3Trans Sex Work in Colonial North America: A HerstoryJamey JespersonChapter 4Prostitution in Eighteenth Century FranceNina Kushner Chapter 5Streetwalking and the city: un/gendering public spaces and counter-mapping Oxford and Cambridge.Olivia DurandChapter 6“Free me from this place of debauchery”: Voices, Agency and Sex Work in French Colonial MoroccoCatherine PhippsChapter 7“A Constant Influx of Men, Day and Night”: Sex Trafficking and French Military Prostitution During the First Vietnam War (1946-54)Marie RobinChapter 8Selling Bodies in the Age of the Flesh: Bodies, Dance, and Postwar JapanAlice BaldockChapter 9Inside the Czech Sex Industry: Prostitution from 1948 to TodayKateřina ŠteklováChapter 10Take a Picture, It Lasts Longer: Sex and the SelfieCamille WaringChapter 11Tracing Historical Disruptions in the Sex Worker Rights Movement in Late Colonial and Postcolonial India through Testimonies from within the CommunityShriya PatnaikChapter 12Global Sex Work in the 20th-Century Gig Economy: Empowering Adult Content Creators through Labour RecognitionRebecca Rose Nocella