{"product_id":"disreputable-women-black-sex-economies-and-the-making-of-san-diego-volume-3-paperback","title":"Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego Volume 3 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristina Jessica Carney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisreputable Women \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 the places they congregated as blight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Carney documents how some black women reconceptualized the public and private spheres by using residential hotels and multiuse commercial spaces for housing and work, controlling their erotic economies and their sexual-cultural lives. She marks how discrete and explicit intellectual, economic, and political practices by black women complicate a dominant understanding of red-light areas and black sex workers as undesirable contaminators to be \"cleaned out.\" Instead, her intuitive framework of \"disreputability\" offers a more ethical and workable approach to imagining the built environment and its inhabitants--developing a rich and robust grammar for understanding black women's lives amid scenes of militarization and gendered anti-blackness.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisreputable Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a wide-ranging, unique, and compelling study of the history of black women and trans or gender-nonconforming people in the sexual economy of San Diego. This is a strong, clear, and brilliantly presented work that will surely be taught widely in graduate and undergraduate classrooms across the country.--Mireille Miller-Young, author of \u003ci\u003eA Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Represents the very best of new scholarship in the fields of queer and black feminist history: interdisciplinary, evidence-rich, and conceptually sophisticated. Christina Carney uses the innovative developments of both fields to bring the two together: drawing on black feminist theorizations of racialized gender and sexuality, queer challenges to identity norms, close attention to power and difference, and new methods for studying histories of the present.\"--Christina Hanhardt, author of \u003ci\u003eSafe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An engaging and informative read. Carney's adept and thoughtful analysis of the ways black women created lives and communities for themselves within the context of structural racism and state violence offers important contributions to black studies and black feminist studies, particularly by highlighting how these women enacted resistance.\"--Christina Baker, author of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Jessica Carney \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52932690346095,"sku":"9780520395091","price":60.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/qo-I_Z5H1w9780520395091.webp?v=1775852127","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/disreputable-women-black-sex-economies-and-the-making-of-san-diego-volume-3-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}