NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON PROSTITUTION
P.O. Box 2113, New York, NY 10025-2113
e-mail: penet@bayswan.org
(Priscilla Alexander)

SEX WORK BIBLIOGRAPHY


Prostitution in the West

The Voice of the Sex Worker

Almodovar, Norma Jean, Cop to Call Girl: Why I Left the LAPD to
Make an Honest Living as a Beverly Hills Prostitute. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Barrows, Sydney Biddle, with William Novak, Mayflower Madam. New
York: Ballantine Books, 1986.

Bell, Laurie (ed.), Good Girls/Bad Girls: Feminists and Sex
Trade Workers Fact to Face. Seattle: The Seal Press, 1987.

Delacoste, Frederique and Priscilla Alexander (eds.), Sex Work: Writings by women in the sex industry. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1987. London: Virago Press, 1988. Translations:

German: Sex Arbeit. Heyne Verlag, 1989. Includes Priscilla
Alexander, "Prostitution: A Difficult Issue for Feminists," and
"Prostitutes are being Scapegoated for Heterosexual AIDS."

French, Dolores and Linda Lee, Working: My Life as a Prostitute. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988.

Jaget, Claude (ed.), Prostitutes, Our life. London: Falling Wall
Press, 1980. Translated by Anne Furse, Suzie Fleming, and Ruth
Hall.

Kimball, Nell, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam. Edited by Stephen Longstreet. New York: The Macmillan Company,1970.

Leigh, Carol (ed.), "In Defense of Prostitution: Prostitutes debate their 'choice' of profession," Gauntlet, Vol. I, No. 7. A special issue devoted to sex work in the United States. Includes articles about AIDS, police corruption, working conditions, and covers both prostitution and pornography. The contributors include sex workers, sociologists, sex radicals, and others.

Madeleine: an Autobiography. New York: Persea Books, 1986. Introduction to the 1919 Edition by Judge Ben B. Lindsey; newintroduction by Marcia Carlisle.

McClintock, Anne (guest ed.), Social Text, Winter 1993, Number
37. A special issue devoted to sex work issues. Includes
articles covering such issues as stigma, feminism, and power
relations, written by sex workers, clients, sociologists,
psychologists.

Morgan Thomas, Ruth, "HIV and the Sex Industry," in Judy Bury,
Val Morrison & Sheena McLachlan (eds.), Working with Women &
AIDS: Medical, social, & counselling issues. London: Tavistock/Routledge, 1992.

Perkins, Roberta, Working Girls: Prostitutes, their Life and
Social Control. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology,
1991.

____, Bennett G, Being a Prostitute: Prostitute women and
prostitute men. Boston: Allen & Unwin, Inc., 1985.

Pheterson, G (ed.), A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal Press, 1989. Translations: Nosotros, Las Putas. Madrid: Talasa Ediciones, 1992. Includes the proceedings of the Second World Whores Congress held in Brussels, Belgium, in 1986.

Real, Griselidis, La Passe Imaginaire. Levallois-Perret, France: Manya, 1992.

Roberts, Nickie, Whores in History: Prostitution in Western Society. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. This book, the first of its kind, is written by a former sex worker; as such, it offers a unique perspective on the historical record, quite different in tone from other books on the subject.

Rosen, Ruth and Sue Davidson, The Mamie Papers. Old Westbury,
NY: The Feminist Press, 1977.

The Voice of the Observer



Barnhart, Jacqueline Baker, The Fair but Frail: Prostitution in
San Francisco 1849-1900. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1986.

Bassermann, Lujo, The Oldest Profession: A History of
Prostitution. Translated from the German by James Cleugh. New
York: Dorset Press, 1965, 1967.

Bell, Shannon, Reading, Writing & Rewriting the Prostitute Body. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Bristow, Edward J., Prostitution and Prejudice: The Jewish Fight
against White Slavery 1870-1939. New York: Schocken Books, 1983.

Bullough, Vern and Bonnie Bullough, Women and Prostitution: A Social History. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1987.

Butler, Anne M., Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West 1865-90. Champaign, IL:University of Illinois Press, 1985.


Carlton, Charles, Royal Mistresses. London: Routledge, 1990.

Carmen, A and Moody, H, Working Women: The Subterranean World of
Street Prostitution. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Cohen, B, Deviant Street Networks: Prostitution in New York
City. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1980.

Connelly, Mark Thomas, The Response to Prostitution in the
Progressive Era. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North
Carolina Press, 1980.

D'Emilio, John D., and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A
History of Sexuality in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Finnegan, Frances, Poverty and Prostitution: A study of
Victorian prostitutes in York. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1979.

Gilfoyle, Timothy J., City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution,
and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920. New York: W.W.
Norton & Company, 1992.

Goldman, Marion S., Gold Diggers and Silver Miners: Prostitution and Social Life on the Comstock Lode. Ann Arbor: The University of Michgan Press, 1981.

Hill, Marilyn Wood, Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New
York City, 1830-1870. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Hobson, Barbara Meil, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of
Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

Jenness, Valerie, Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights
Movement in Perspective. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993.

Lerner, Gerda, The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1986. See the chapter, "Veiling the Woman."

Miller, EM, Street Woman. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1986.

Otis, Leah Lydia, Prostitution and Medieval Society: The History
of an Urban Institution in Languedoc. Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press, 1985.

Pearl, Julie, "The Highest Paying Customers: America's Cities
and the Costs of Prostitution Control," The Hastings Law Journal,
Vol. 38, No. 4, April 1987, p. 769-800.

Perry, Mary Elizabeth, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1980. See the
chapter, "Lost Women."

Pomeroy, Sarah B., Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in
Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975.

Richards, Jeffrey, Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority
Groups in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1990. See
especially Chapter 6: "Prostitutes."

Rosen, Ruth, The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America 1900-
1918. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Rossiaud, Jacques, Medieval Prostitution. Translated by Lydia G.
Cochrane. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, 1988.

Taylor, Allegra, Prostitution: What's Love Got to Do with It? London: Optima, Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1991.

Walkowitz, Judith R., City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of
Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London. Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press, 1992.


Prostitution in Developing Countries

Africa



Hall, Laurel Meredith, "'Night Life' in Kenya," in Gail Pheterson
(ed), A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal
Press, 1989.

Moodie, T. Dunbar (with Vivienne Ndatshe and British Sibuyi),
"Migrancy and Male Sexuality on the South African Gold Mines," in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinius, and George Chauncey, Jr.
(eds), Hidden from History: Reclaiming the gay and lesbian past. New York: New American Library, 1989.

Neequaye, Alfred, "Prostitution in Accra," in Martin Plant (ed),
AIDS, Drugs, and Prostitution. London: Tavistock Publications,
1987.

Nelson, Nici, "'Selling her Kiosk': Kikuyu notions of sexuality
and sex for sale in Mathare Valley, Kenya,:" in Pat Caplan (ed),
The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tavistock
Publications, 1987.

Oostenk, Annemiek, "A Visit to Burkina Faso," in Gail Pheterson
(ed), A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal
Press, 1989.

Pickering, Helen, et al., "Prostitutes and their Clients: A
Gambian survey," Soc. Sci. Med., Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 75-88, 1992.

Tabet, Paola, "I'm the Meat, I'm the Knife: Sexual Service,
Migration, and Repression in Some African Societies," in Gail
Pheterson (ed), A Vindication of the Rights of Whores. Seattle: Seal Press, 1989.

White, Luise, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial
Nairobi. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.

_____, "Prostitution, Identity, and Class Consciousness during
World War II," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
11,2 (1986), pp. 255-73.

Wilson, David, et al., "A Pilot Study for an HIV Prevention
Programme among Commercial Sex Workers in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe,"
Soc. Sci. Med., Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 609-618, 1990.

Asia

Asia Watch and The Women's Rights Project, A Modern Form of
Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in
Thailand. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1993.

Desquitado, Marivic R., Behind the Shadows: Towards a better
understanding of prostituted women. Davao City: Talikala, Inc.,
1992. Published by a community organizing project in Davao City,
the Philippines. The project was formed by a group that included
social workers and prostitutes.


Enloe, Cynthia, Bananas, Beaches & Bases: Making Feminist Sense
of International Politics. London: Pandora Press, 1989. See
the chapters, "On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism," and "Base
Women."

____, Does Khaki Become You? The Militarisation of Women's
Lives. Boston: South End Press, 1983. See the chapters, "The
Military Needs Camp Followers" and "The Militarisation of
Prostitution."

Gronewold, Sue, Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China
1860-1936. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1985.

Haeri, Shahla, Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989.

Kapur, Promilla, The Indian Call Girls. New Delhi: Orient
Paperbacks, 1979. This book comes with an insert that says,
"This book has now been exonerated from obscenity charge by Delhi
High Court."

Nanda, Serena, Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990.

Odzer, Cleo, Patpong sisters: An American Woman's View of the
Bangkok Sex World. New York: Blue Moon Books/Arcade Publishing, 1994.

Phongpaichit, Pasuk, From Peasant Girls to Bangkok Masseuses. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1982.

Raghuramaiah, K. Lakshmi, Night Birds: Indian Prostitutes from
Devadasis to Call Girls. Delhi: Chankya Publications, 1991.

Sturdevant, Saundra Pollack, & Stoltzfus, Brenda, Let the Good
Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia. New
York: The New Press, 1992.

Thorbek, Suzanne, Voices from the City: Women of Bangkok. London: Zed Books, 1987.

Truong, Thanh-Dam, Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and
tourism in South-east Asia. London: Zed Books, 1990.

____, Virtue, Order, Health and Money: Towards a comprehensive
perspective on female prostitution in Asia. Bangkok: United
Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
1986.

Prostitution and STD (HIV): Disease or Working Conditions, Alexander, Priscilla, Making Sex Work Safer: A guide to HIV/AIDS, Prevention Interventions. Geneva: World Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS (in press).

____, "Prostitutes are being Scapegoated for AIDS," in Delacoste,
Frederique and Priscilla Alexander (eds.), Sex Work: Writings by
women in the sex industry. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1987.,London: Virago Press, 1988. Translations: German: Sex Arbeit. Heyne Verlag, 1989.

____, "Sex Workers Fight Against AIDS: An International
Perspective," in Beth E. Schneider and Nancy Stoller (eds.),
Women Resisting AIDS: Strategies of Empowerment. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Brandt, Allan M., No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal
Disease in the United States since 1880. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1985 (Paperback, 1987).

____, "A Historical Perspective," in Harlon L. Dalton and Scott
Burris (eds.), AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

____, "AIDS: From Social History to Social Policy," in Elizabeth
Fee and Daniel M. Fox (eds.), AIDS: The Burdens of History.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Cohen, Judith B., Priscilla Alexander, and Constance Wofsy,
"Prostitutes and AIDS: Public Policy Issues," AIDS & Public
Policy Journal, 3:2, 1988, pp. 16-22.

Cohen, Judith B. and Priscilla Alexander, "Female Prostitutes: Scapegoats in the AIDS Epidemic," in Ann O'Leary and Loretta
Sweet Jemmott (eds.), Women and AIDS: Primary Prevention. New
York: Plenum Press (in press).

Davenport-Hines, Richard, Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes
to sex and sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance. London: Fontana Press/HarperCollins, 1990.

Gibson, Mary, Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Harsin, Jill, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Paris. >Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Hyam, Ronald, Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience.

Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Mahood, Linda, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth
Century. London: Routledge, 1990. Scotland, contemporaneous
with the Contagious Diseases Acts in England.

Mort, Frank, Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in
England since 1830. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

Plant, Martin (ed.), AIDS, Drugs, and Prostitution. London: Tavistock/Routledge, 1990. A series of papers on the
epidemiology of HIV infection among prostitutes and the impact of
AIDS prevention and community organizing interventions in Europe,
the United States, Australia, and Africa.

Rosenberg, Michael J., "Prostitutes and AIDS: A Health
Department Priority?" American Journal of Public Health, April
1988, 78:4, pp. 418-423.

Quetel, Claude, History of Syphilis. Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1990. Tra