You can read an abstract here:. The presence of thousands of sailors from the French metropole, stuck in Fort-de-France following a blockade that isolated the island for three years, ushered the adoption of new prostitution policies in the port city.
These measures aspired to control intimate relations across racial boundaries, in a colonial setting where French citizenship had been extended to all individuals after the abolition of slavery. Many of these women nonetheless managed to evade attempts to control their body; their actions pointed to the limits of the established system.
Currently only the French version is available, the English language version will be available at a later date. Femmes, Genre, Histoire 50 Novembre : Professor Sequin has also spent this Winter Interim period in the military archives in Vincennes, on the outskirt of Paris, and in the departmental archives in Guadeloupe. Below is a picture of her archival findings; it shows the card that was used to register a woman as a prostitute in the city of Basse-Terre, in Guadeloupe.
January 20, Caroline Sequin publishes new article and conducts research in Vincennes and Guadeloupe. History Caroline Sequin publishes new….
