Sex and Work and Love in America and Abroad
May Jeong, Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism
Thu, 11/7 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm · 16 Joseph Henry House
Program in Journalism
May Jeong will discuss the transnational nature of sex work, how it intersects with immigration, colonialism, and American empire-building abroad, its ties to vagrancy laws, Progressive Era reform, and ideas around madness and labor
May Jeong is a Vanity Fair staff writer. She is the author of the forthcoming narrative nonfiction book THE LIFE: Sex, Work, and Love in America. Anne McClintock is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute.
Please RSVP for this event; space is limited. This talk is open to University faculty, students, and staff.