Book Review: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers: Their Common Element
In
Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s collection
of
essay’s Global Woman: Nannies,
Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, several scholars
address the
issues of modern domestic workers. While some may wonder what nannies,
maids,
and sex workers actually have in common, many global feminists find
that their
connection is obvious.
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Book Review: The Great Southern Babylon
While some
historians have chosen to study prostitution and other less reputable
behaviors
from social and cultural perspectives; others view the subject through
the gaze
of law, politics, and crime. While
Alecia Long’s narrative is driven by a series of five
Louisiana Supreme
Court cases, her entrance into this historiography with The
Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in
Book Note:
Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street
Reprinted with permission from
Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXIV, No. 2
Trumpet
Records: Diamonds on
Book Note:
Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky
Reprinted with permission from
Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXIV, No. 2
Community
Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life
in
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