RT Book
T1 Disreputable women: black sex economies and the making of San Diego
T2 New sexual worlds
JF New sexual worlds
A1 Carney, Christina Jessica 1985-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1910643521
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HQ146.S275
SN 978-0-520-39508-4
SN 978-0-520-39509-1
K1 sex workers : California : San Diego : Social conditions : 20th century
K1 sex work : California : San Diego : History : 20th century
K1 African American Women : California : San Diego : Social conditions : 20th century
K1 African American Women : California : San Diego : Economic conditions : 20th century
K1 African American Women : Sexual behavior : California : San Diego : History : 20th century
K1 Drag queens : California : San Diego : History : 20th century
K1 African American lesbians : California : San Diego : History : 20th century
K1 San Diego, Calif. : Prostitution : Schwarze Frau : Kriminalisierung : Stigmatisierung : Rassismus