Comparative History of Households, Gender and Work

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Review of: Selling Sex in World Cities

Recently, the Low Countries Review of Social and Economic History (TSEG) published a favourable review of our edited volume containing a global history of sex workers, by Nina Kushner, historian…

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Van regionaal naar globaal. Wat kunnen we leren…

This article aims to bring together three different long-term, global comparative studies on women’s work in three sectors: the textile industry, domestic service and sex work from the seventeenth century…

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Language

“One can sleep with anyone, but one can only read some people’s words.” Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991 [2nd ed.]), p. 77   One of the great advantages of staying…