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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 38–40.
Published: 01 May 2024
...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...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 155–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... inequality, and many people live in poverty. There is xenophobia. There is social inequality. There is sexism. Decriminalization of sex work would not eliminate all these systemic problems. However, it might be a necessary first step for sex workers to live in a material world where they feel safer...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 41–43.
Published: 01 May 2024
...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...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 31–34.
Published: 01 May 2024
...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...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 81–110.
Published: 01 May 2024
...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...
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1. Tadej Pogačar, Red Umbrella March from the First World Congress of Sex Workers, 2001. More
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Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (54): 177–186.
Published: 01 October 1992
...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...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of sex work and trafficking . The essay goes on to introduce the components of this special issue: the first section, Reflections, presents short first-person accounts by sex worker activists, advocates, and scholars regarding a critical keyword they have worked with or resisted. The second section...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 169–184.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Carol Leigh Abstract Carol Leigh (also known as Scarlot Harlot) is an artist, author, filmmaker, and sex workers’ rights activist. She famously coined the term sex work , a fundamental part of the lexicon regarding all workers’ rights, owed in large part to Leigh’s artistic and activist career...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 200–217.
Published: 01 May 2024
... on governmentality approaches, it asks: What discursive conditions made decriminalization possible? In doing so it examines the construction of sex work as a health problem and the normalization of “sex work,” arguing that both can be grounded in a neoliberal problematic of governance. Concentrating on the case...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 147–158.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., creating an unequal climate of gendered power relations that comprised dating, sex work, and frequent rape. This article considers how the violent embrace shaped historical narratives of US power in East Asia, obscuring both imperial power and systemic sexual violence in military archives and later...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 27–30.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Kate Marquez Abstract “Reflections” are short essays by sex work activists, scholars, and advocates about their personal experiences with a “troubling term” of their choice. They are exemplary of a methodological approach that never takes for granted the histories, legacies, and effects...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 32–58.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in the name of soldiers’ health, as well as to uphold their racial and military authority. Shifting perspectives, this case study then considers how women in Liberia resisted army regulation of their sexuality and what they gained and lost through sex work, despite their confinement. Finally, this essay...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 15–26.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 1. Tadej Pogačar, Red Umbrella March from the First World Congress of Sex Workers, 2001. ...
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Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 1. The Adventures of Scarlot Harlot , subtitled “The Demystification of the Sex-Work Industry,” launched the term sex worker , as Scarlot emerges with a paper bag on her head that reads: “This paper bag symbolizes the anonymity prostitutes are forced to adopt!” She casts off the bag More
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 53–73.
Published: 01 October 2014
... and leadership in discussions of homophile history.3 Many scholars comment on homophile criticisms of bar culture, gender transgression, public sex, pornography, sex work, and sexual promiscuity, but few question the extent to which the movement was dominated by respectable sexual politics. Even those...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 130–153.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and Notorious Liars , 83 . 64. Thuma, All Our Trials , 46 . 65. Kaba, No Selves to Defend . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 sex work community defense prison abolition “We wake up every morning...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 57–60.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Judith R. Walkowitz References Delacoste Frédérique , and Alexander Priscilla , eds. Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry . Pittsburgh, PA : Cleis Press , 1987 . Leigh Carol . “ Inventing Sex Work .” In Whores and Other Feminists , edited by Nagle Jill...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 35–37.
Published: 01 May 2024
... . 1. Ross, “Outdoor Brothel Culture,” 143 . The acceptable sex worker derives their status through a comparison to what they are not, the unacceptable other. I appreciate working girl for how it pushes back against this division, locating contemporary sex work within a much longer history...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (149): 48–50.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and imperialism. In Korea, I lived near US camp towns and witnessed the ways that US militarism and imperialism led to the subjugation of Korean women. 1 I am reminded of these histories while working with Asian migrant massage and sex workers in the United States and hearing their stories of police raids...