Conference: "Selling Sex in the City: Prostitution in World Cities, 1600 to the Present".
Concluding conference of the project with the same name. The aim of this project is to write a global and comparative history of female prostitution from 1600 to the present. Notwithstanding the large number of national studies on particular aspects of prostitution (e.g. regulation, attitudes or labour market), no international comparison over a significant span of time has been attempted.
This project attempts to achieve a comprehensive overview on prostitution from a global labour history perspective. It studies prostitution as a societal phenomenon as well as a form of labour, and focuses, therefore, on prostitutes' working/living conditions and work culture.
Organization
- Magaly Rodríguez García - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (mrodrigu@vub.ac.be)
- Lex Heerma van Voss - Huygens Institute for Dutch History (Lex.HeermavanVoss@huygens.knaw.nl)
- Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk - elise.vannederveenmeerkerk@wur.nl
Papers included
Based upon their cosmopolitan character with regard to commercial and/or military activities, we have decided to minimally include the following cities in the project:
- Africa: Cairo, Casablanca, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town
- Asia: Shanghai, Bombay, Manila, Surabaya
- Europe: Amsterdam, Florence/Rome, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Paris, Hamburg/Berlin, Stockholm
- Latin America: Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Guatemala City
- North America: Manhattan/New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans
- Oceania: Sydney, Melbourne