...Lorraine Nencel [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 It was 1990, and I was off for my first research project on sex work in Lima, Peru. Neatly packed into my conceptual baggage was the term sex work ( trabajo sexual ). However...

...Nan Alamilla Boyd Photo by Katy Raddatz, San Francisco Chronicle, 2004. Reprinted with permission INTERVENTIONS Sex and Tourism: The Economic Implications of the Gay Marriage Movement Nan Alamilla Boyd What new queer politics are emerging through tourism, and what tourist...

...Nicholas Terpstra Mapping the boundaries and spaces of prostitution and tracking shifts in regulation and prosecution over the centuries allows us better to appreciate shifts in the sights, sounds, and above all the politics of sex and the sacred in the premodern city. Digital tools can provide new...

...Barry Reay This article deals with some very queer diaries in the New York Public Library, the David Louis Bowie Diaries, 1978–1993. These descriptions of New York sex in the periods before and after AIDS consist of text, drawings, and photographs, including information on drug taking, numerous...

... practices, including the ways that all kinds of sex practices and gendered ways of being scramble the categorical logics of structured databases. digitization feminism archives photography © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 doing archives Body, Sex, Interface...

... to a discursive and material process it calls “homomilitarism,” wherein the same-sex erotics of gay marriage have emerged to confront and reproduce the dominant paradigm of heteronormativity in the militarist and tourist industries of the Pacific. While these systems appear unrelated, the article demonstrates how...

...Margaret Strobel Copyright © 1992 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1992 Sex and Work in the British Empire Margaret Strobe1 Ronald Hyam, Sexuality and Empire: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester...

...Marc Stein Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 Sex Politics in the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves Marc Stein On Monday evening, 22 August 1960, sixteen law enforcement offi- cers...

...Donna Haraway 1979 The Biological Enterprise : Sex, Mind, and Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology Donna Haraway Life can be moulded into any conceivable form. Draw...

...Jennifer Tyburczy This article elaborates on the themes and practices mobilized in the course Exhibiting Sexualities. The class begins with the premise that all museums are already sex museums and examines the museum context as a pivotal and highly influential site in the construction of modern...

...Jesse Berrett Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 The Sex Revolts: Reading Gender and Identity in Mass Culture Jesse Berrett S. Paige Baty, American Monroe: The Making ofa Body Politic. Berkeley...

... celebrated in 1966—inspired Antilleans to theorize sex and desire beyond the bounds of capitalism. 3 Radical activists likewise embraced Black Power’s exaltation of blackness and its potential to revitalize romantic love among and between black men and women. Their articulations of a revolutionary...

... . Hartman Saidiya . “ Venus in Two Acts .” Small Axe 12 , no. 2 ( 2008 ): 1 – 14 . Johnson Rin . “ Bring Your Own Body .” Brooklyn Rail , November 5 , 2015 . brooklynrail.org/2015/11/artseen/bring-your-own-body . Meyerowitz Joanne . How Sex Changed: A History...

... inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships of sex and visual production, and to generate new lines of inquiry and reshape visual...

...Heather Berg Abstract Refusing both sex workers’ state-produced vulnerability to violence and the state’s monopoly on protection, sex worker radicals articulate community defense as a practice of care. Grounded in interviews with thinkers of the sex worker Left and in sex workers’ cultural...

...India Thusi Abstract Sex worker organizations in South Africa have engaged in significant advocacy to eliminate the current laws that criminalize the sale of sexual services there. Advocates argue that criminalization stigmatizes sex workers by labeling their conduct as unlawful, pushing them...

...Luise White [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 Sometime in the late 1980s I became aware of the term sex work . I was taken aback; it seemed too constrained and limiting. I understood its import—prostitution is work...

...Raven Bowen [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 S urvival sex work is a term that appears self-explanatory as meaning sex for survival, but I have had to rethink its utility over the decades. In 1995, I began working...

...Tracy Quan [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 In 1990 I encountered sex addiction, a niche neurosis for a handful of ambivalent call girls. One who sought to convert me to her belief system (“recovery”) was also attending twelve...

...Judith R. Walkowitz Abstract Focusing on the UK case, this essay explores how ideas and political practices around sex as work took root in a particular national space and shifted over time. Sex work helped to alter the political and social perception of sex traders, repudiating their marginality...