Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (2009). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and articles drawn from this book have won the Society for French Historical Studies William Koren, Jr. Prize and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.

'With a cast of colorful characters - pimps, prostitutes, policemen, consular officials, and more - moving from Paris and other French cities to Havana, Buenos Aires, and throughout the Americas, Elisa Camiscioli links theories of embodiment and melodramas of trafficking to the experiences of women who sought adventure and livelihood by selling sex. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically innovative, this book reconceptualizes the history of prostitution through the history of migration and immigration control to trouble the boundaries between agency and coercion, public and private, work and leisure. A major achievement!' Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Terminology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The French Paradigm: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Sexual Slavery; 2. Desiring Undesirable Women: Fantasies of French Vice in the United States and Cuba; 3. Coercion and Choice: The Road to Buenos Aires; 4. The Gender of Identity Documents: Passports, Forgeries, and Fraud; 5. Rejecting Honest Work: Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men; 6. Reputation and Repatriation: The Road Back to France; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (2009). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and articles drawn from this book have won the Society for French Historical Studies William Koren, Jr. Prize and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.

'With a cast of colorful characters - pimps, prostitutes, policemen, consular officials, and more - moving from Paris and other French cities to Havana, Buenos Aires, and throughout the Americas, Elisa Camiscioli links theories of embodiment and melodramas of trafficking to the experiences of women who sought adventure and livelihood by selling sex. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically innovative, this book reconceptualizes the history of prostitution through the history of migration and immigration control to trouble the boundaries between agency and coercion, public and private, work and leisure. A major achievement!' Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Terminology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The French Paradigm: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Sexual Slavery; 2. Desiring Undesirable Women: Fantasies of French Vice in the United States and Cuba; 3. Coercion and Choice: The Road to Buenos Aires; 4. The Gender of Identity Documents: Passports, Forgeries, and Fraud; 5. Rejecting Honest Work: Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men; 6. Reputation and Repatriation: The Road Back to France; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the author of Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (2009). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and articles drawn from this book have won the Society for French Historical Studies William Koren, Jr. Prize and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize.

'With a cast of colorful characters - pimps, prostitutes, policemen, consular officials, and more - moving from Paris and other French cities to Havana, Buenos Aires, and throughout the Americas, Elisa Camiscioli links theories of embodiment and melodramas of trafficking to the experiences of women who sought adventure and livelihood by selling sex. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically innovative, this book reconceptualizes the history of prostitution through the history of migration and immigration control to trouble the boundaries between agency and coercion, public and private, work and leisure. A major achievement!' Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Terminology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The French Paradigm: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Sexual Slavery; 2. Desiring Undesirable Women: Fantasies of French Vice in the United States and Cuba; 3. Coercion and Choice: The Road to Buenos Aires; 4. The Gender of Identity Documents: Passports, Forgeries, and Fraud; 5. Rejecting Honest Work: Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men; 6. Reputation and Repatriation: The Road Back to France; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.