On French and British Freedoms Early Bloomsbury and the Brothels of Modernism by Christine Froula

“…Against the usual view that the Stephens moved from ‘respectable’ Kensington to ‘disreputable’ Bloomsbury, the documents of early Bloomsbury show that the Stephen sisters escaped a Kensington house not entirely unlike a brothel for the Bloomsbury home where Virginia first had the ‘room with a lock on the door’ that she later makes the condition of a woman’s freedom. …”
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BROTHEL OF TU BA – THE INTENSE PERIOD OF THUY KIEU’S LIFE by Nguyễn Hữu Sơn

“…We apply gender theory to understand the life of Thuy Kieu at the brothel of Tu Ba in relation to her entire life. We focus on analyzing memories, reflections, and pure love predictions in contrast to the days of exile at Tu Ba's brothel. …”
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Born in a brothel: New perspectives on childcare with medieval sex workers by Maxime Poulain, Céline Bon, Jessica Palmer

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Kelly Patty, Lydia’s Open Door. Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel by Sébastien Roux

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La prostitution à Beyrouth sous le mandat français (1920-1943) by Nessim Znaien

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Bordel de bled, bordel au Bled : figures rurales de la prostitution au Maroc by Mustapha Qadéry

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Feminine Features as Political Tools: the Cases of Femen and Women of Liberia by Gabriela Caviedes

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Ženská nucená práce v českých zemích 1939–1945 by Dana Musilová, Pavla Plachá

“…This system, on the one hand, used the female workforce in the same way as the male, but on the other hand, it had some gender-specific characteristics (women were forced to prostitution in camp brothels, pregnancy, maternity). This study aims to analyse the current state of research, to specify the terminology used in relation to female forced labor, to classify it and to define its specifics in the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Imperial County Sudetenland. …”
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Le « marché aux putains » : économies sexuelles et dynamiques spatiales du Palais-Royal dans le Paris révolutionnaire by Clyde Plumauzille

“…In the Revolutionary period, the decline of the great Ancien Regime brothels, the increase of the number of Parisian prostitutes, and the decriminalization of prostitution in 1791 through the new Criminal and Correctional Codes, put the Palais-Royal on the front of the prostitutional scene: the latter, according to the observer Louis-Sébastien Mercier, then concentrated in a “dot” the whole prostitution scandal of the capital. …”
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À la recherche d’une intimité sexuelle. Résistance collective et camaraderie masculine des appelés dans les casernes grecques by Angeliki Drongiti

“…Conscripts form gangs of boys, peer groups engaged in a form of institutional resistance associated by bonds of male camaraderie, which allow them to access sexual activities in a collective manner: group seduction, collective flirting, rearranging the schedule to facilitate an intimate encounter, visits to brothels. Using data from semi-structured interviews and participant observation, and mobilizing analytical tools from the sociology of the military and sociology of gender, I examine gendered criteria for exclusion and inclusion in those gangs: access to these tight-knit groups is allowed only to those who demonstrate heteronormative sexuality and manifested masculinity.…”
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Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…Other soldiers consorted with streetwalkers or visited brothels, carefully regulated by the German authorities. …”
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Sexual Practices and HIV Prevention Strategies Used by Female Sex Workers in Lagos, Nigeria: An Assessment of the Willingness to Use a Microbicide by Ekama SO, Sheth AN, Ilomuanya MO, Okwuzu JO, Musa AZ, Idigbe I, Ezeobi PM, Oladele DA, Ezechi OC, Salako BL

“…We also explored factors that might influence their willingness to use a new microbicide product.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among female sex workers recruited from brothels within Lagos-Nigeria, in which participants were selected via purposive sampling over a period of five-months. …”
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« Le fauteuil d’amour » du prince de Galles : la légende à l’épreuve des archives by Michèle Mariez

“…In the world of eroticism, it is best known for having produced a “love seat” for the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, around 1900, a special commission from Chabanais, the most popular brothel in Paris. A study of the Soubrier archives donated to the library of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2017 by the current descendants of the house has yielded previously unpublished information that sheds light on the history of this exceptional piece of furniture.…”
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Clash of Past and Present: Production of Historical and Representational Spaces in Oscar Wilde’s Poetry by Emre Çakar

“…Wilde used characters and places of ancient Greek mythology in his poems and developed a poetic sensitivity that focused on the real places and characters of the city. The brothel, the prison and the streets of London are some of the places that he used in his poems. …”
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