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Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America : Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits by Veque, Mollie Le is a art available to read on EtoBox.

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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, Mol

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Author
Veque, Mollie Le
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc I.B.Tauris
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781786734822
Category
art
Subjects
Art, Photography, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Updated
2026-03-25

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