Coercion and Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Camiscioli (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 483-507 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-7558357 |
| OpenAlex | W2967796507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 57 |
This article employs police investigations of the “traffic in women” between France and Argentina in the first three decades of the twentieth century to highlight the multiple narratives in play when contemporaries talked about trafficking and relayed their experiences of it. While the dominant narrative of “white slavery” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized coercion, sexual exploitation, and victimization, many young working-class women described the journey to Argentina in terms of perceived opportunity, whether for money, travel, or freedom. This is not to downplay the social and economic vulnerability of these women and the precarious lives they led in French and Argentine cities. Instead, the article emphasizes the inadequacy of many existing frameworks for discussing sex trafficking, and prostitution more generally, as they rely too heavily on a stark division between coercion and choice. Cet article repose sur une analyse d'enquêtes de police portant sur la « traite des femmes » entre la France et l'Argentine durant le premier tiers du vingtième siècle. Il met l'accent sur la multiplicité des discours évoquant la traite, et l'expérience des femmes impliquées. Si, à la fin du dix-neuvième et au début du vingtième siècle, le discours dominant à propos de la « traite des blanches » souligne la coercition, l'exploitation sexuelle et la victimisation, de nombreuses femmes appartenant à la classe ouvrière décrivent leur périple en Argentine comme une opportunité de gagner plus d'argent, de voyager, ou de saisir leur liberté. Cet article ne vise cependant à minimiser ni le rôle de la vulnérabilité économique et sociale de ces femmes, ni leur vie précaire dans les villes de France et d'Argentine. Il cherche plutôt à mettre en évidence le caractère inadapté des différents paradigmes existants pour aborder le sujet du trafic sexuel, et plus généralement de la prostitution, ainsi que la manière dont ces paradigmes reposent sur une division trop marquée entre le choix et la contrainte
Art · Coercion (linguistics · Ethnology · Humanities · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Women for Hire
Sex & danger in Buenos Aires
The poor of eighteenth-century France 1750-1789
The Politics of Trafficking
Intimate Labors
Policing Sexuality
Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Abandoned Children
The Devil's Chain
Speaking with Vampires
Speaking with Vampires
Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917
Le mythe de la traite des blanches
The Lost Sisterhood
The Devil's Chain
Live Sex Acts
Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Illicit Flirtations
The Pariahs of Yesterday
The Fantasy of Feminist History
City of Dreadful Delight
Global Sex
Prostitution and Victorian Society
Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters
Global Sex Workers
Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism
Beautiful Victims and Sacrificing Heroines
Surveiller les déplacements ou identifier les personnes ? Contribution à l'histoire du passeport en France de la Ie à la IIIe République
Innocence and Experience
White Slavery and Whiteness
Who gets to choose? Coercion, consent, and the UN Trafficking Protocol
Loose women or lost women? The re-emergence of the myth of white slavery in contemporary discourses of trafficking in women
The Political Debates on Prostitution and Trafficking of Women
La Nouvelle Activité des Trafiquants de Femmes’
When Argentina Was “French”
The League of Nations and the Moral Recruitment of Women
Measuring the Threat of Global Crime
Commentary
Telling More
New slavery, old binaries
Beautiful Dead Bodies
White Slave Crusades
The Disappearing of a Migration Category
Thinking Trafficking, Thinking Sex
Ordre et securite. Les nouveaux corps de police de la Troisieme Republique
Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires
Peasants into Frenchmen
The Evidence of Experience
Sex, social hygiene, and the state
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |