Trick identities: The nexus of work and sex

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Miller, Heather Lee ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 38949165610     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2004.0018     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. For work that concentrates primarily on prostitution reform, see, for example, Ruth Rosen, The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982);
2. Barbara Meil Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition (New York: Basic Books, 1987);
3. David J. Pivar, Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and Social Control, 1868-1900 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973),
4. and David J. Pivar, Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002).
5. For a detailed look at the male "sporting" subculture of New York City, see Timothy J. Cilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992).
6. and Ann M. Butler (Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes of the American West, 1865-90 [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985]), examine the female subculture of prostitution. They do not, however, examine prostitutes' sex tasks as work qua work.
7. See also, Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
8. For example, Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), esp. 14;
9. Paula Petrik, No Step Backward: Women and Family on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865-1900 (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1987), 25;
10. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery, esp. chap. 3;
11. and Hobson, Uneasy Virtue, 108.
12. See, among many others, Alice Kessler-Harris, Out To Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982);
13. Lisa M. Fine, The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990);
14. Dorothy Sue Cobble, Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991);
15. Wendy Gamber, The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997);
16. Darlene Clark Hine, Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989);
17. Kathleen Weiler, Country Schoolwomen: Teaching in Rural California, 1850-1950 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998);
18. Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987);
19. For example, Shannon Bell, Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994);
20. Valerie Jenness, Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997);
21. and Ronald Weitzer, Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry (London: Routledge, 2000).
22. For example, Dolores French, with Linda Lee, Working: My Life as a Prostitute (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988);
23. and Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988).
24. See Heather Lee Miller, "The Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United States, 1870-1940" (Ph.D. diss., The Ohio State University, 2002).
25. For a similar argument in terms of women's sexual deviance, see Joanna Phoenix, "Paradoxical Stories of Prostitution," in Constructing Gendered Bodies, ed. Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Linda McKie (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 56-81, esp. 56.
26. Ruth Mazo Karras, "Prostitution and the Question of Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe," Journal of Women's History 11 (summer 1999): 159-77.
27. A good overview of this debate is Melanie Simmons, "Theorizing Prostitution: The Question of Agency," Sexuality and Culture 2 (1998): 125-48.
28. Vivien Jones, "Eighteenth-Century Prostitutes: Feminist Debates and the Writing of Histories," in Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality, ed. Avril Horner and Angela Keane (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), 127-42, esp. 129-30.
29. For example, [Lola Ardley], Memoirs of a Pleasure Girl, typescript copy, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Bloomington, Indiana [hereafter Kinsey Institute];
30. Wilbur Burton, "Erotic Autobiography," 1951, Kinsey Institute;
31. See also Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, eds., Women, Autobiography, Theory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).