CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. This issue of Radical History Review assembles writings from scholars, sex workers, and activists, each of whom interrogates a “troubled term” and its place in the history of prostitution. Genealogies: This section includes scholarly articles that explore a particular troubled term. Judith R. Walkowitz explores the genealogy of sex work and its embrace among UK prostitute rights activists. Elisa Camiscioli and Eva Payne trace the shifting meanings of (male) demand across national spaces, international accords, and two centuries. Christina Carney unpacks the moral panic over white slavery and […]
Monthly Archives: May 2024
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The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 154 (January 2026) Abstract Deadline: May 30, 2024 (extended deadline) Co-Edited by Amy Chazkel and Anup Grewal Radical History Review seeks contributions to a forthcoming issue that will explore the expansive possibilities when we historicize rest. Rest is everywhere part of quotidian human experience, and the human body’s need for intermittent periods of restorative unconsciousness is a universal feature of our shared biology. Yet how societies, communities and individuals have segmented sleep in time, sequestered it in space and fought over access […]
A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 155 (May 2026) Abstract Deadline: July 15, 2024 Co-Edited by Andor Skotnes and Paul Buhle This RHR issue will explore the recent history of comics in North America and globally—defined broadly as works that combine sequences of visual images, frequently with text, to convey narratives. Comics in this sense have existed for well over a century as independent publications as well as appearing in circulars, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and other print (and more recently digital) media. During the 1930s, popular audiences for comics grew rapidly, especially among youth, and then grew […]