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Bloomsbury Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America (International Library of Cultural Studies): Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits

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Product Description 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 gendered stereotypes of frailty and victimhood onto the women they portrayed. In Images of Sex Work, Mollie LeVeque interrogates these glib readings and argues that sex work was a routine aspect of life in a modern city. She supports this theory by examining a range of cultural forms such as crime fiction, illustrations and paintings from contemporary urban centres like Paris, London and New York. In doing so, she advances the new argument that Bellocq humanised his subjects, de-sensationalised sex work and gave these women the dignity they were all too often denied. About the Author 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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Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America: Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits (International Library of Cultural Studies)

Product type: ABIS BOOK

Brand: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1788311787
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Portraits
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 August 2018
Listed Since: 29 June 2017

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