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Deviant Existences: Understanding Queer and Sex Worker Identities and their Entwined Histories
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This exhibit examines modern queer identities, sex work, and the murky, entwined relationship between history, behavior, and identity formation.
A History of Prostitution and Public Health: The Social Control of Prostitutes' Bodies
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19th century Paris and the contemporary United States extered similar mechanisms of social control over prostitutes’ health and bodies. This control simultaneously reflects and reproduces stereotypes of the prostitute as a diseased body that the customer needs protection from.