Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America: Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Visual ArtsISBN-13:9781350430624ISBN-10:1350430625UPC:9781350430624Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Criticism & Theory, Prostitution & Sex TradeBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC5722KD4G
Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn't apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq's depictions of Storyville's sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans' singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Visual ArtsISBN-13:9781350430624ISBN-10:1350430625UPC:9781350430624Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Criticism & Theory, Prostitution & Sex TradeBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC5722KD4G
Mollie Le Veque received her PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research interests are the interplay of images, archives and texts, fandom histories, erased urban spaces and the Storyville Portraits.
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