Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America: Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits

by Mollie LeVeque

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350430625
• ISBN13: 9781350430624
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"