Forward 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 Labour 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 Twentieth-Century Gig Economy: Empowering Adult Content Creators through Labour Recognition
Rebecca Rose Nocella
Biography
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.
