Young, Walter's My Secret Life and Hulda Stockenius

(The Georgian Underworld: Criminal Subcultures in Eighteenth-Century England; Chapter 15)

Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology, 2020

The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies, 2019

The American Archivist, 1994

In the past decade, the study of sexuality has proven to be one of the most dynamic academic enterprises. Among the most popular topics has been the history of prostitution. Archivists have been invaluable but largely unsung allies in the explosive growth of a new revisionist literature. Through the preservation of long-ignored and oftendiscarded records and manuscripts, archivists provided the means enabling historians to answer many new questions, not only about prostitution but about the history of sexuality. Yet some of these sources raise provocative and controversial problems for historians and archivists documenting the history of sexuality. The author acknowledges and thanks Loyola University of Chicago, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Newberry Library in Chicago for providing financial support to complete this article. His appreciation also extends to Mary Rose Alexander, Kenneth Cobb, Phillip Costello, and the anonymous referees of The American Archivist...

Womens Studies International Forum, 1990

Synopsis-This paper uses the case of the Glasgow Magdalene Institution to examine the activities of the nonstatutory female penitentiary movement in Glasgow, 1860-1890. It argues that the declaration strategies employed by moral reformers and designed to save women labelled as magdalenes, prostitutes, and fallen women from the formal criminal justice system, resulted in the expansion of the entire system, which began to include more women of a greater age range and type of offence. Drawing upon recent work on the history of sexuality and Victorian prostitution, this paper shows that a) nonstatutory female penitentiaries developed a variety of social control mechanisms to encourage moral reform: and b) the Glasgow hlagdalene institution constituted a techno/ogy ojpower: a social control apparatus for the surveillance, sexual and vocational control. and moral regulation of a segment of the female working class population, who defied middle-class notions of female respectability. *An associated discussion of some of the material in this paper appears in The Making of Scorland: Nation. Cdfure and Social Change, David &Crone (Ed.), Edinburgh University Press (in press). I would like to thank Barbara Littlewood and Vie Satzewich for their invaluable assistance in the preparation of this paper.

Secrets and Discovery in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Meirinhos et al., (Barcelona-Rome: Brepols, 2017), pp. 247-257

Prior to the 1394 visitation of the city of Salisbury, John Maydenhith, residentary canon of Salisbury, announced in English the defects, errant behaviour and sins he wanted to be discovered and dealt with by the proceedings 1 . The first set of ills was concerned with the clergy.

2011

Using a review of several letters from the papers of Rice C. Ballard, a former Virginia slave trader, this article examines the lives " fancy girls, " a little known group of high-end, enslaved women who were sold for use as concubines or prostitutes during antebellum America. Specifically, this study uses letters from two women to demonstrate how this unique female slave encountered an industrializing America in ways that often differ from the experiences of other female slaves.

Historical Archaeology, 2021

Feminine Trifles. The Construction of Gender Roles in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and in Modern English and American Crime Stories. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, 2008.