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

By Christina Jessica Carney
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By Christina Jessica Carney
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ASALH Book Prize Finalist 2026, Association for the Study of African American Life and History

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 p...

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