Books by Katherine Elaine Bliss
“This book begins in 1910 at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, in which the dictator Porfirio Diaz was deposed, and the analysis stretches up to the 1940s. Bliss looks at this as a period in which the revolution was built, during which a plethora of ideas were in circulation regarding what it meant to be a citizen in modern Mexico. She puts prostitution at the centre of this history of revolution.” Read more...
Siobhán Hearne, Historian
Interviews where books by Katherine Elaine Bliss were recommended
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Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960
by Julia Laite -
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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria
by Nancy M. Wingfield -
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Code of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay
by Ashwini Tambe -
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When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria 1900-1958
by Saheed Aderinto -
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Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City
by Katherine Elaine Bliss
History of Prostitution Books, recommended by Siobhán Hearne
History of Prostitution Books, recommended by Siobhán Hearne
Societies of all different stamps have tried to eliminate prostitution but it never works and there are always unintended consequences. Siobhan Hearne, a historian of sexuality in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, explains how exploring the history of prostitution provides fascinating insights into social and political history as well as offering some genuine, and very clear, lessons from the past.
