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- Title
La prostituée dans la nuit : étude de la presse à sensation au Québec, 1942-1960.
- Authors
Straw, Will
- Abstract
This article examines the figure of the sex worker as represented in Quebec’s tabloid press in the years 1942 to 1960. It focuses on two successive periods in the history of Quebec print culture: first, the years 1942-1947, represented by the periodical Police Journal, which, part newspaper and part magazine, proposed a reformist examination of Quebec morality through sensationalist reporting on crime and vice; second, the yellow journalism of the 1950s, which exploited sex trade crimes for sensationalist purposes. During the transition between the two periods and the two print entities, the figure of the city prostitute evolved: she was first the symbol of a social hygiene problem and next a criminal figure, creating narratives of individual action and agency.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Quebec); SEX workers; SEX crimes; SEX work; HISTORY of printing; PRINT culture; HUMAN trafficking
- Publication
Tangence, 2022, Issue 130, p61
- ISSN
1189-4563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1098326ar