Eva Payne

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, a time to support and uplift sex workers everywhere—and a particularly good day to throw some money to the United Brothel Workers in Nevada who were illegally terminated after their historic union drive with CWA went public! ☂️

Come hang out at @redemmas.org on Wednesday October 1st!

The History of the US War on Prostitution On this episode of American Prestige, Eva Payne on the imperial roots of the American fight against sex work.

Listen: @evapayne.bsky.social‬, author of Empire of Purity, speaks to @amprestigepod.bsky.social about American sexual exceptionalism and the history of the US war on prostitution:

E214 - The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution w/@evapayne.bsky.social

Eva Payne is on the show to talk about her book "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution"!

Consider registering for our program co-sponsored with the @ihrc-umn.bsky.social.

The online webinar examines the Page Act of 1875 and rethinks its significance 150 years later.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time.

Register here: umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Still at 30% discount #UNCPress!

@greeneland.bsky.social, writes: "The Work of Empire is a stunning achievement...a major and beautifully written work that scholars of empire as well as military and labor history will need to read and contemplate." Book release, Amherst Books, Thursday, May 1, 7pm!

An excellent recommendation!

How the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade Why should American exceptionalism end at the red-light district?

Check out Empire of Purity in the New Yorker!! @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Belgium becomes first country to give sex workers robust labor rights and protections The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment.

“Belgium made history on Sunday as the first country in the world to allow sex workers to sign formal employment contracts — granting them access to sick days, maternity pay and pension.”

www.npr.org/2024/12/01/n...

Protecting or punishing women through an ‘empire of purity’? Debates over women’s right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race.

The control of women’s bodies, under the guise of protection, has been a crucial part of how US power has operated and expanded on the global stage. Americans’ war on prostitution in the early twentieth century helped to cement this pattern.

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I wrote about the longer history of using "protecting" women to police them

Come see me and Tess Lefmann on Tuesday evening! @princetonupress.bsky.social

Empire of Purity is here! Thanks @princetonupress.bsky.social!

Out in November 2024 with @princetonupress.bsky.social!

red cover with images of women

I wrote a book and it has a cover!