This illuminating global history challenges the notion that coercion alone dictated women's migrations for work in the sex industry.

Selling French Sex is an illuminating account of the cultural, social, and economic history of the sale of 'French sex'. It explores the discourses and experien

Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well told, it explores the ways in which s

This book offers snapshots of sex work in global history, examining how it has differed in different places around the world at different points in time. Focusi

Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.