Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego

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 ...