Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 13:27:05 -0400
From: tburke1-AT-cc.swarthmore.edu (Timothy Burke)
Subject: Re: urban space and women


>Does anyone know of any essays or books dealing with prostitution and urban
>space?  I am specifically interested in readings of architecture and women,
>especially hotel cultures.  My locus for study is open although I am most
>familiar with Latin America, the Caribbean, and Morocco.
>Also, does anyone know of an architecture listserv?


There is a wonderful book on this subject: Luise White, -The Comforts of
Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi-. White talks specifically about
housing as a "means of production" for colonial prostitutes and how
different sorts of buildings constructed different forms of prostitution.


Timothy Burke
Swarthmore College, Department of History
Swarthmore, PA 19081
610-328-8115 (w), 610-544-2504 (h)




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