| Date |
Topic |
Reading/Assignment due |
| 9.7 |
Course introduction |
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| 9.14 |
Historiography of prostitution; theory |
Lerner, "The Origin of Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia";
Rubin, selections from "Thinking Sex" |
| 9.21 |
White Slavery and the American Progressive Era; screen Traffic in Souls |
Gilfoyle, "White Slaves and Kept Women"; Turner, "Daughters of the Poor" (NOTE: Turner is not in the reader and will be distributed as a handout) |
| 9.28 |
Prostitution in Victorian Britain |
Walkowitz, selections from City of Dreadful Delight; Stead, "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" |
| 10.5 |
E. J. Bellocq; screen Pretty Baby |
Sontag, "On Bellocq"; Arceneaux, "Guidebooks to Sin: The Bluebooks of Storyville" |
| 10.12 |
Chinese prostitution in SF |
selections from Yung, Unbound Feet and Unbound Voices; first paper due |
| 10.19 |
Colonialism: Nairobi |
White, "Livestock, Labor, and Reproduction: Prostitution in Nairobi and the East African Protectorate" |
| 10.26 |
Colonialism: the Philippines |
Kramer, "The Darkness that Enters the Home" |
| 11.2 |
Colonialism: Comfort Women; screen film |
Min, "Korean Comfort Women" |
| 11.9 |
Male prostitution |
Chauncey, "Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood"; Marlowe, "It's Different for Boys" |
| 11.16 |
More theory |
Walkowitz, "Male Vice and Female Virtue"; Shrage, "Should Feminists Oppose Prostitution?" |
| 11.30 |
Student presentations |
final paper due |
| 12.7 |
Contemporary debates: feminists for and against prostitution |
Pheterson, "The Whore Stigma"; Leigh, "Inventing Sex Work"; Brownmiller, "Speaking out on Prostitution" |
| 12.14 |
Sex worker activism
Invited speaker: Carol Stuart from the St. James Infirmary |
readings from web sites |