Disreputable Women
Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego
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2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39509-1 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39509-1 (ISBN)
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Disreputable Women is a deeply transdisciplinary study of how black women use sex work and place making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city that is intent on displacing and caging them. Christina Jessica Carney distills the production of these "disreputable women" during two major twentieth-century urban-development processes in downtown San Diego, where municipal police, public health officials, and even activists designated street-involved sex workers and the places they congregated as blight.
Carney documents how some black women reconceptualize the public and private spheres by using residential hotels and multiuse commercial spaces for housing and work, controlling their erotic economies and their sexual-cultural lives. She marks how discrete and explicit intellectual, economic, and political practices by black women complicate a dominant understanding of red-light areas and black sex workers as undesirable contaminators who must be "cleaned out." Instead, her intuitive framework of "disreputability" offers a more ethical and workable approach to imagining the built environment and its inhabitants—developing a rich and robust grammar for understanding black women's lives in the scene of militarization and gendered anti-blackness.
Carney documents how some black women reconceptualize the public and private spheres by using residential hotels and multiuse commercial spaces for housing and work, controlling their erotic economies and their sexual-cultural lives. She marks how discrete and explicit intellectual, economic, and political practices by black women complicate a dominant understanding of red-light areas and black sex workers as undesirable contaminators who must be "cleaned out." Instead, her intuitive framework of "disreputability" offers a more ethical and workable approach to imagining the built environment and its inhabitants—developing a rich and robust grammar for understanding black women's lives in the scene of militarization and gendered anti-blackness.
Christina Jessica Carney is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Sexual Worlds ; 3 |
| Zusatzinfo | 21 b-w illustrations, 4 maps |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-39509-3 / 0520395093 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-39509-1 / 9780520395091 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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