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• Title:Images of sex work in early twentieth-century America : gender, sexuality and race in the Storyville portraits / Mollie Le Veque.
  
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• Variant Title:Gender, sexuality and race in the Storyville portraits
  
• Author/Creator:Le Veque, Mollie, author.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR681.P73 L53 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bellocq, E. J.--Criticism and interpretation.
  Photography, Artistic--20th century--History.
  Portrait photography--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
  Prostitutes--Louisiana--New Orleans--Pictorial works--History.
  Storyville (New Orleans, La.)
  
• Description:xv, 202 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:International library of modern and contemporary art.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781788311786 (hardcover)
  1788311787 (hardcover)
  9781848858947 (HB)
  9781786734822 ePDF
  1786734826 ePDF
  9781786724823 eBook
  1786724820 eBook
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. (Self-)Representing Storyville Women
  `The Terrible Fate of Kate Townsend': Melodrama and Morality in the Media
  Blue Books and Manufactured Personas
  `Indelible Marks' of `Lewd and Abandoned' Women - Pornography and Print Culture
  Depictions of Collateral Damage?
  2. `White Slave' and the Question of Ambiguity
  `Degrees to Which a Woman could be Considered Fallen': White Slavery Scares and Sloan's Three A.M.
  Intersecting Taboos
  `Think I Want to get Pinched under the White Slave Law?': Ambiguity in Representations of Sex and Sex Work
  `Infinite Stories Whose Endings We Will Never Know' in Bellocq's Portraits
  3. Fog of Violence, Voyeurism, and Crime
  `Violently and Downwards' - the Ripper Postmortems and the Curious Case of Thomas Neill Cream
  `But I Am What [He] Made Me': The Storyville Portraits as `Lust Diary'
  `I Am Just Aching To Take My Axe and Go Down Canal Street': Violence As a Convention of Reform
  `Bellocq Never Said Anything and They Always Let Him Go' - Imposed Criminalities
  4. `Paris-ification' of New Orleanian Vice
  Mysteries of Paris; Mysteries of New Orleans -Promiscuity, Sex Work, and Sex Slavery
  `To See The Tenderloin Proper is to Visit Trilby's': Echoes of Nana and Trilby in Storyville
  Etait Dans Le Vice Comme Un Poisson Dans L'eau: Creole and Parisian Influences on Narratives of Storyville
  `An Opulent City of Sin, [...] a Dangerous City of Death' - New Orleans's Parisian `Otherness'.