Introduction -- The French Paradigm: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Sexual Slavery -- Desiring Undesirable Women: Fantasies of French Vice in the United States and Cuba -- Coercion and Choice: The Road to Buenos Aires -- The Gender of Identity Documents: Passports, Forgeries, and Fraud -- Rejecting Honest Work: Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men -- Reputation and Repatriation: The Road Back to France -- Conclusion
Summary
"Selling French Sex challenges contemporary understandings of trafficking by exploring the discourses and experiences surrounding the migration of French women for work in the early-twentieth-century sex industry. It will interest students and scholars of French, immigration, women's and gender, and world history"-- Provided by publisher
