Episode 102: Sex Work in History

Sources

  • Stephanie Budin. 2008. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. 

  • Mary Beard, J. Henderson, "With This Body I Thee Worship: Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity", in M. Wyke (ed.), Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford, 1998, p. 56-79.

  • Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure. (eds). 2006. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. 

  • Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Lex Heerma van Voss, and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (eds). 2017. Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution 1600s-2000s.

  • Juno Mac and Molly Smith. 2018. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights.  

  • Katie Dowd. 2020. The remarkable life of 'Alice Smith,' once San Francisco's most famous sex worker https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/Alice-Smith-Barbary-Coast-prostitute-california-15169787.php 

  • Harriet T. Zuendorfer. 2011. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550-1644). International Review of Social history 56 (s19), 197-206. 

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