《两个安妮的故事:美国性工作者历史上从罪人到天使的历史记忆、档案和延续》

IF 0.3 3区历史学 Q2 HISTORY

Gender and History Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI:10.1111/1468-0424.12746

Ashley Barnes‐Gilbert

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摘要

作为一名性工作历史学家，我分析了性工作者生活的归档实践和解释性工作者生活中的权力动态，解构了塑造性工作者可能性的历史和当前话语。在这篇文章中，我探讨了19世纪夫人安妮·库克和安妮·钱伯斯的传说。根据现存的历史记录，库克和钱伯斯在死前从罪人变成了天使——通过献祭来避免他们所谓的不道德的生活——在这个过程中，成为值得历史纪念和存档的人。在认识到存档某些文件而不存档其他文件的政治时，我解构了库克和钱伯斯的历史，以展示话语和历史记忆如何简化性工作者的生活。这些比喻有一个更大的目的，即把白人性工作者的生活塑造成可救赎的、有价值的，而把黑人性工作者塑造成不值得被历史记忆的，不仅塑造了性工作的历史，也塑造了当前关于性工作者生活、性交易、法律权利和归属感的辩论。

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A Tale of Two Annies: Historical Memory, Archives and the Perpetuation of the Sinners to Angels Trope in American Sex Worker History

Abstract As a historian of sex work, I analyse the power dynamics in the archiving practices and interpretation of sex worker lives, deconstructing the historic and current discourses shaping the possibilities for sex workers. In this article, I explore the legends of nineteenth‐century Madams Annie Cook and Annie Chambers. According to the remaining historical record, Cook and Chambers transformed from sinners to angels prior to death – using sacrifice to eschew their lives of alleged immorality – and in the process, became worthy of historical remembrance and archiving. In recognising the politics of archiving certain documents but not others, I deconstruct the histories of Cook and Chambers to show how discourse and historical memory function to simplify sex worker lives. These tropes serve a larger purpose of constructing white sex worker lives as redeemable and valuable and Black sex workers as unworthy of historical memory, shaping not only the history of sex work but also current debates about sex worker lives, sex trafficking, legal rights and belonging.

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期刊介绍： Gender & History is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole.