Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades – Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review

Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades

A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review
Issue number 149
Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2022
Co-Edited by Julia Laite, Rachel Schreiber, and Judith Walkowitz

The Radical History Review seeks contributions to a special issue to be titled “Troubling Terms and the Sex Trades.”

Prostitution, sex work, trafficking, and decriminalization are not only contentious feminist issues, but contentious words that have important and complex histories and cultural contexts. This special issue of the Radical History Review will explore the “troubling terms” associated with sexual labor and exploitation.

This call for papers solicits a range of different submissions.  It seeks article-length, historically-grounded pieces as well as shorter reflective pieces, both from historians and those who have worked with sex workers or as sex workers, about what these terms mean, and how their meaning and application have changed over time. Find more information here.