Elisa Camiscioli

Selling French Sex

Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Selling French Sex challenges contemporary understandings of trafficking by exploring the discourses and experiences surrounding the migration of French women for work in the early-twentieth-century sex industry. It will interest students and scholars of French, immigration, women's and gender, and world history"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781009418379
• ISBN-10: 1009418378
• Artikelnr.: 69298961

Autorenporträt

Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (2009). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and articles drawn from this book have won the Society for French Historical Studies William Koren, Jr. Prize and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The French Paradigm: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Sexual Slavery
2. Desiring Undesirable Women: Fantasies of French Vice in the United States and Cuba
3. Coercion and Choice: The Road to Buenos Aires
4. The Gender of Identity Documents: Passports, Forgeries, and Fraud
5. Rejecting Honest Work: Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men
6. Reputation and Repatriation: The Road Back to France
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.