Judith R Walkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 380580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith R Walkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith R |
| FAMILY NAME | Walkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | WALKOWITZ J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
History Workshop Around the World: USA History Workshop in the United States
This essay recalls London friendships with History Workshop members over 50 years. It also assesses HWJ's impact on radical, feminist, and public history in the United States
From Activist to Ally
Judith R. Walkowitz:Priscilla Alexander, you are a major figure in the history of prostitute rights activism. You were a pioneer activist in San Francisco’s prostitute rights group COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), you wrote most of COYOTE’s position papers on policing, the AIDS crisis, decriminalization, the history of sex work, etcetera. You also served as liaison between COYOTE and feminist organizations. You coedited the classic anthol…
The Idea of Sex Work
Focusing on the UK case, this essay explores how ideas and political practices around sex as work took root in a particular national space and shifted over time. Sex work helped to alter the political and social perception of sex traders, repudiating their marginality and positioning them in the mainstream of ordinary working lives. Beginning in the 1970s, political activists aligned the idea of sex as work with a defense of female practitioners …
The Agency Dilemma
Is it structure or agency that shapes human actions? The question remains a central one for historians, and social scientists more broadly. This forum offers a deep dive into what it means to think about the relationship between agency and structure. It is set in motion with a deliberately provocative essay by the Russian historian Anna Yu. Krylova. “I wonder,” Krylova writes, “whether the challenge for historians has recently become not to find …
Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in King’s Cross in the 1980s
In the 1980s, prostitution resurfaced as the object of feminist politics as second-wave activists grappled with Thatcherism, prostitute rights, tenant activism, anti-violence movements, and changes in the street sex trade and in policing. These conflicting imperatives converged on King's Cross, London. Events in King's Cross highlight some general trends, especially shifts in policing and in the geographic dispersal of the street sex trade. King'…
The Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour
‘Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour’ summons up the intellectual/political landscape of feminist historical thinking on prostitution in the early 1970s, when I began work on Victorian feminists and prostitutes. It assesses the key features of agreement among a generation of feminists working on this topic, and suggests how their interpretive framework has been refined and revised. It also expresses the need to imagine the prostitute as a …
Sex and Class in Women's History: Essays from Feminist Studies
Foreword. Editors' Introduction 1. Class and Gender in Victorian England Leonore Davidoff 2. Freud's Dora, Dora's Hysteria Maria Ramas 3. Servants, Sexual Relations and the Risks of Illegitimacy in London, 1801-1900 John R. Gillis 4. Free Black Women and the Question of Matriarchy Suzanne Lebsock 5. Power of Women's Networks Mary P. Ryan 6. The Men Are as Bad as Their Masters...: Socialism, Feminism and Sexual Antagonism in the London Tailoring T…
Cosmopolitanism, Feminism, and the Moving Body
In October 1894, Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, a feminist purity reformer, successfully challenged the music and dancing license of the Empire Theatre of Varieties before the licensing committee of the London County Council. Mrs. Chant raised two objections to the management of the Empire: first, that “the promenade, an open space behind the dress circle in front of the bar,” where 500 people circulated nightly, was used “as the habitual resort of p…
The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Edwardian London
Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London
Research Article| April 01 1998 Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London Judith R. Walkowitz Judith R. Walkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1998) 62: 1–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902937 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Late-Victorian London, city of dreadful delight with the new pleasures of the music hall, West End shopping, and the mingling of high and low life where women of every class challenged the traditional privileges of a male elite. It was a city also of sexual repression and the policing of women, of sexual scandal and danger. In this brilliantly illuminating study, Walkowitz shows how these narratives played out complex dramas of power, politics an…
What Happened to the Feminist Revolution in Political Science: A Review Essay
Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late Victorian London
Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women's Club 1885-1889
Judith R Walkowitz; Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women's Club 1885–1889, History Workshop Journal, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 March 1986, Pages 37–59
Sex and Class in Women's History
Sexuality and Power: A Review of Current Work in the History of Sexuality
Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jane Caplan, Judith R. Walkowitz; Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain, History Workshop
Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State
The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police. Prostitution and Victorian Society makes a major contribution to women's history, working-class history, and the social history of medicine and…
The Politics of Prostitution
Crossing Borders: Transnational Advances in the History of Women
Mary P. Ryan, Judith R. Walkowitz, Crossing Borders: Transnational Advances in the History of Women, Feminist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Women and Power: Dimensions of Women's Historical Experience (Spring, 1979), pp. 1-6
Notes on the History of Victorian Prostitution
Sex and Class in Women's History
Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London
Research Article| April 01 1998 Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London Judith R. Walkowitz Judith R. Walkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1998) 62: 1–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902937 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
The Politics of Prostitution
Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in King’s Cross in the 1980s
In the 1980s, prostitution resurfaced as the object of feminist politics as second-wave activists grappled with Thatcherism, prostitute rights, tenant activism, anti-violence movements, and changes in the street sex trade and in policing. These conflicting imperatives converged on King's Cross, London. Events in King's Cross highlight some general trends, especially shifts in policing and in the geographic dispersal of the street sex trade. King'…
Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jane Caplan, Judith R. Walkowitz; Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain, History Workshop
Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late Victorian London
The Idea of Sex Work
Focusing on the UK case, this essay explores how ideas and political practices around sex as work took root in a particular national space and shifted over time. Sex work helped to alter the political and social perception of sex traders, repudiating their marginality and positioning them in the mainstream of ordinary working lives. Beginning in the 1970s, political activists aligned the idea of sex as work with a defense of female practitioners …
The Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour
‘Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour’ summons up the intellectual/political landscape of feminist historical thinking on prostitution in the early 1970s, when I began work on Victorian feminists and prostitutes. It assesses the key features of agreement among a generation of feminists working on this topic, and suggests how their interpretive framework has been refined and revised. It also expresses the need to imagine the prostitute as a …
The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Edwardian London
Notes on the History of Victorian Prostitution
Notes on the History of Victorian Prostitution
Crossing Borders: Transnational Advances in the History of Women
Mary P. Ryan, Judith R. Walkowitz, Crossing Borders: Transnational Advances in the History of Women, Feminist Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, Women and Power: Dimensions of Women's Historical Experience (Spring, 1979), pp. 1-6
Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State
The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police. Prostitution and Victorian Society makes a major contribution to women's history, working-class history, and the social history of medicine and…
The Politics of Prostitution
Sexuality and Power: A Review of Current Work in the History of Sexuality
Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jane Caplan, Judith R. Walkowitz; Male Vice and Feminist Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain, History Workshop
Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women's Club 1885-1889
Judith R Walkowitz; Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women's Club 1885–1889, History Workshop Journal, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 March 1986, Pages 37–59
Sex and Class in Women's History
Science and the Seance: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Late Victorian London
What Happened to the Feminist Revolution in Political Science: A Review Essay
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Late-Victorian London, city of dreadful delight with the new pleasures of the music hall, West End shopping, and the mingling of high and low life where women of every class challenged the traditional privileges of a male elite. It was a city also of sexual repression and the policing of women, of sexual scandal and danger. In this brilliantly illuminating study, Walkowitz shows how these narratives played out complex dramas of power, politics an…
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
The Indian Woman, the Flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Edwardian London
Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London
Research Article| April 01 1998 Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London Judith R. Walkowitz Judith R. Walkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1998) 62: 1–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902937 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Perm…
Cosmopolitanism, Feminism, and the Moving Body
In October 1894, Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, a feminist purity reformer, successfully challenged the music and dancing license of the Empire Theatre of Varieties before the licensing committee of the London County Council. Mrs. Chant raised two objections to the management of the Empire: first, that “the promenade, an open space behind the dress circle in front of the bar,” where 500 people circulated nightly, was used “as the habitual resort of p…
Sex and Class in Women's History: Essays from Feminist Studies
Foreword. Editors' Introduction 1. Class and Gender in Victorian England Leonore Davidoff 2. Freud's Dora, Dora's Hysteria Maria Ramas 3. Servants, Sexual Relations and the Risks of Illegitimacy in London, 1801-1900 John R. Gillis 4. Free Black Women and the Question of Matriarchy Suzanne Lebsock 5. Power of Women's Networks Mary P. Ryan 6. The Men Are as Bad as Their Masters...: Socialism, Feminism and Sexual Antagonism in the London Tailoring T…
The Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour
‘Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour’ summons up the intellectual/political landscape of feminist historical thinking on prostitution in the early 1970s, when I began work on Victorian feminists and prostitutes. It assesses the key features of agreement among a generation of feminists working on this topic, and suggests how their interpretive framework has been refined and revised. It also expresses the need to imagine the prostitute as a …
Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in King’s Cross in the 1980s
In the 1980s, prostitution resurfaced as the object of feminist politics as second-wave activists grappled with Thatcherism, prostitute rights, tenant activism, anti-violence movements, and changes in the street sex trade and in policing. These conflicting imperatives converged on King's Cross, London. Events in King's Cross highlight some general trends, especially shifts in policing and in the geographic dispersal of the street sex trade. King'…
The Agency Dilemma
Is it structure or agency that shapes human actions? The question remains a central one for historians, and social scientists more broadly. This forum offers a deep dive into what it means to think about the relationship between agency and structure. It is set in motion with a deliberately provocative essay by the Russian historian Anna Yu. Krylova. “I wonder,” Krylova writes, “whether the challenge for historians has recently become not to find …
From Activist to Ally
Judith R. Walkowitz:Priscilla Alexander, you are a major figure in the history of prostitute rights activism. You were a pioneer activist in San Francisco’s prostitute rights group COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), you wrote most of COYOTE’s position papers on policing, the AIDS crisis, decriminalization, the history of sex work, etcetera. You also served as liaison between COYOTE and feminist organizations. You coedited the classic anthol…
The Idea of Sex Work
Focusing on the UK case, this essay explores how ideas and political practices around sex as work took root in a particular national space and shifted over time. Sex work helped to alter the political and social perception of sex traders, repudiating their marginality and positioning them in the mainstream of ordinary working lives. Beginning in the 1970s, political activists aligned the idea of sex as work with a defense of female practitioners …
History Workshop Around the World: USA History Workshop in the United States
This essay recalls London friendships with History Workshop members over 50 years. It also assesses HWJ's impact on radical, feminist, and public history in the United States
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Sex work and related issues (8 works)