The MADELEINE ARCHIVES
The Archives is a developing collection of media that aims to diversely & accurately represent erotic labor.
We all deserve a world where an honest night’s work is demystified, destigmatized, and made safe for everyone involved.
Starting Your Sex Work Book Collection: 101
Popular Articles (by author)
- Brown, Elizabeth Nolan The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War On Drugs
- Gee, Alastair Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars
- Grant, Melissa Gira When Prostitution Wasn’t A Crime (Historical)
- Holston-Zannell, LaLa B Sex Work Is Real Work and It’s Time to Treat It That Way
- Human Rights Watch Why Sex Work Should Be Decriminalized
- Laskowski, Amy A Brothel Reveals Its Secrets (Historical)
Academic Articles (by author)
- Cabili, Diana “NHI” condones violence against prostitutes
- Camiscioli, Elisa Coercion and Choice: The “Traffic in Women” between France and Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century
- D’Adamo, Kathryn M. It Could Be Your Daughter: White Slaves to Baby Prostitutes
- Ditmore, Melissa Hope Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Volumes 1 & 2
- Dunae, Patrick A. Geographies of sexual commerce in Victoria, British Columbia, 1862-1912
- Hansen-Brett, C.L. Ladies in Scarlet: An Historical Overview of Prostitution in Victoria, BC 1870-1939
- Jabbour, Nicholas Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics
- Jackson, April Lynn The History of Prostitution Reform in the United States
- Jones, Kimberly Prostitution and Police: The Great Social Evil in Chicago
- Luker, Kristin Sex, Social Hygiene, and the State: The Double-Edged Sword of Social Reform
- Lusty, Natalya Sexing the Manifesto: Mina Loy, Feminism and Futurism
- Pliley, Jessica Prostitution in America
- Pliley, Jessica Vice Queens and White Slaves: The FBI’s Crackdown on Elite Brothel Madams in 1930s New York City
- Pliley, Jessica Trafficked White Slaves and Misleading Marriages in the Campaigns Against Sex Trafficking, 1885–1927
- Shelton, Jacqueline Evil Becomes Her: Prostitution’s Transition from Necessary to Social Evil in 19th Century America
- Sloan, Lacey/Wahab, Stephanie Feminist Voices on Sex Work: Implications for Social Work
- Srsic, Amanda/Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Katarzyna/Kocot, Ewa The Economic Consequences of Decriminalizing Sex Work in Washington, DC—A Conceptual Model
- York-Bertram, Sarah “We Have Never Allowed Such A Thing Here”: Social Responses to Saskatchewan’s Early Sex Trade, 1880 to 1920
Notes & Quotes
Want to skip to (some of) the best parts of the book? Here, have a peek at my research notes! A blog post with reading lists can be found here.
- Rosen, Ruth The Lost Sisterhood
Coming soon…
- Grant, Melissa Gira Playing the Whore
- Mac, Juno & Smith, Molly Revolting Prostitutes
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Madeleine Blair is an editor, memoirist, sex workers’ rights activist & professional companion based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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