Eva Payne
@evapayne.bsky.social
Historian of gender, sexuality, and US empire | Author of Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press, 2024) | Assistant Prof @ U of Mississippi | Avid birder https://evabpayne.com
Free to read this week, the brilliant @evapayne.bsky.social on how the US enforces its own ideologies of sexual morality and sex work internationally foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/29/a...
America’s Sexual Exceptionalism
How Washington shaped global policy toward sex and prostitution.
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I wrote about how the U.S. enforces its vision of sexual morality abroad for @foreignpolicy.com! Free this week! foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/29/a...
America’s Sexual Exceptionalism
How Washington shaped global policy toward sex and prostitution.
foreignpolicy.com
Join us in congratulating @evapayne.bsky.social, whose book Empire of Purity has won the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize! Her work explores how the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empire. Get 50% of this title now with code SPRING50! Read a preview: hubs.ly/Q04fJJPC0
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! ☂️
Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 5mo agoSheri’s Ranch responded to the petition for union recognition by firing workers Jupiter Jetson, Molly Wylder, Paloma Karr, Adalind Gray, Genevieve Dahl, and Gwen Bunny. The union will be fighting their unlawful terminations, but for now, they need our support: www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
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:
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.
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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...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Page Act of 1875: Rethinking Its Significance 150 Years Later. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875, which excluded women imported for the purposes of prostitution and convicted criminals and criminalized the importation of forcibly recru...
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Immigration History Research Center@ihrc-umn.bsky.social · last yr.You still have time to register for our upcoming joint webinar with @iehs.bsky.social. Join us Tuesday and learn about the lingering significance of The Page Act of 1875. z.umn.edu/PageAct150
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!
“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...
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.
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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. hubs.ly/Q02YRGm50 @princetonupress.bsky.social
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.
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I wrote about the longer history of using "protecting" women to police them
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2y agoIn this edition of Ideas, Eva Payne delves into the history of the U.S. crusade against prostitution and draws compelling parallels to contemporary issues affecting women. press.princeton.edu/ideas/protec... #sociology #Policy #politics #history @evapayne.bsky.social
