#olive seraphim

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THE GREAT EXPANDED SEX WORKER HISTORY READING LIST

Originally made for Olive Seraphim, expanded upon on auntiesandy's request. I've read about a third of these books, and most of the rest are by trusted movement authors or were recommended to me by people whose tastes I admire. A few just looked interesting and ended up on my wish list.

Arrggghhhh, I italicized all the titles and made the font standard on the google doc, but it reverted when I copy pasted, and I can't be bothered to do all that pointing and clicking again. Without further ado:

Forgive the Amazon links:

http://www.amazon.com/Prostitution-Victorian-Society-Women-ebook/dp/B004EBUZOC/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I3L4JQICAZ3EE6

Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State

  (Carol Leigh approved)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Comforts-Home-Prostitution-ebook/dp/B0047GMIW6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I2EF529ISYUSHA

The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7335118-i-ve-got-to-make-my-livin

I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

http://www.amazon.com/Common-Women-Prostitution-Sexuality-ebook/dp/B000U2ICIK/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=ISQJZAK9G4OH2

Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1816448.Sex_Work (Has historical significance b/c is one of the earliest documents of the current movement)

Sex Work: Writings By Women In The Sex Industry

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464890.A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Whores (ditto)

A Vindication of The Rights of Whores

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371252.The_Lost_Sisterhood (Carol Leigh approved)

The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109809.Soiled_Doves (Not really a credible source but a fun read)

Soiled Doves

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257716.City_of_Eros

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75220.Low_Life

Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536329-island-of-vice

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Reform Sin-loving New York

http://www.amazon.com/Temporarily-Yours-Authenticity-Sexuality-ebook/dp/B003URQQGM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=IWNYJ56PT4HYH

Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2088519.Sex_at_the_Margins (not quite history but essential)

Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry

http://www.amazon.com/Global-Sex-Workers-Resistance-Redefinition/dp/0415918294/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=IKEGFCMQUIUV5 (ditto)

Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition

There's also lots of stuff you can find on the web--pdf essays by Anne Mcclintock, Elizabeth Bernstein, Kamala Kempadoo, and Jo Doezema

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Work-Matters-Exploring-Intimacy/dp/1848134347/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I2FSM5WU3UMUJN

Sex Work Matters

  http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Prostitution-Sex-Work-Volumes/dp/0313329680/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381876351&sr=1-1&keywords=Encyclopedia+of+Prostitution+and+Sex+Work

Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

http://www.amazon.com/Upstairs-Girls-Prostitution-American-ebook/dp/B00AC8U4LA/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=ILV6UPMPGXT34

Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West

http://www.amazon.com/Sin-Second-City-Ministers-ebook/dp/B000TDGGWO/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I33P65QT1WDYUK

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

http://www.amazon.com/MAMIE-PAPERS-LETTERS-FROM-EX-PROSTITUTE/dp/B001T5JLZU/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1381876550&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=the+mamie+papers

THE MAMIE PAPERS (LETTERS FROM AN EX-PROSTITUTE)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00795VMHE/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I2L0M4RNOIZ5BL

The Prostitution Papers

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YCPD9E/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1JFCSVJE4LMYQ

Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807061395/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=IZHFKD4Y1X3E0

Eagerly awaited, coming out in Jan: Sex Workers Unite! The History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slut Walk

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005DB7MG6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I16UYXN09FTTE9

Writing with a Vengeance: The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

http://www.amazon.com/Madame-Pompadour-Review-Classics-ebook/dp/B005UF5KI2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381876930&sr=1-1&keywords=madame+de+pompadour

Madame de Pompadour

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0803282737/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1KBLP5DI6QA2P

Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-Century Paris

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584350784/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=IMNAPGB3ECTZC

The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003AU4NBY/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I3V09F06NLGEW8

Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0049MPVR2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=IMT49C0JELA3K

London's Sinful Secret: The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London's Georgian Age

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1848134142/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1NMK9N9RLWZLG

Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficking

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0803270488/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1Q9Y7NE0T3AY

Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family, and Nation in Argentina

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0814250483/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1M14QFKAO062S

PROSTITUTION STATE: ITALY 1860-1915

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FMSVW2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I3UPEHJBQL2XB9

Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806132841/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1J0T2DI8UPYI0

Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0226345572/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=IG7HFCDAANERT

Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674955447/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I2C8ERH7A5GQ6H

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004H0O9R4/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I27EQ0M4N1JRT4

Prostitution and Sex Work (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America)

http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Whore-Work-Sex-ebook/dp/B00F8EYVQ2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381879457&sr=1-1&keywords=playing+the+whore

Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Melissa G G’s upcoming book--will be interviewing her for TAS, and yay, I helped on preliminary edits)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0252014669/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2RZVDUV7QWXXD&coliid=I1S5FQY6ZJL76K

Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90

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Her [Dora Oezer's] death is part of a recent spate of attacks against transwomen sex workers in Turkey. Secil Anne was brutally murdered at her home on the 10th of July. Turkey currently has backdoor criminalization, which requires registration and mandatory health checks. However, the Turkish government has stopped issuing licenses so most sex workers are unregistered. This is a predictable consequences of this sort of faux-legalization. Dora, Secil and many other transwomen sex workers suffer the extreme stigma of not only being sex workers, but also being trans. Trans sex workers experience the most extreme forms of marginalization; trans women are routinely put in men's prisons when convicted of crimes, a cruel and unusual punishment that leaves them vulnerable to rape and other forms of violence. This is routine in Turkey. Women in this position who are also sex workers working in countries with criminalization are vulnerable to this and other forms of torture; in Turkey, sex workers who are unregistered can be convicted and imprisoned for illegal sex work for up to four years.

from Olive Seraphim's speech at the Justice for Dora/Justice for Jasmine protest she co-organized in Perth (along with snarkyoldwitch and others)

Anyone know anything else about Secil Anne?