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Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just popping up to thank the brilliant @evapayne.bsky.social for writing a thoughtful review of my book, Desiring Whiteness, along the excellent books by Elisa Camiscioli and the late Philippa Hetherington. europeanreviewofbooks.com/tits-out-for...

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Tits out for the motherland! - The European Review of Books

Are French sex workers wittier? The prostitute as a marker of national sexual character.

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Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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...

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America’s Sexual Exceptionalism

How Washington shaped global policy toward sex and prostitution.

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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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...

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America’s Sexual Exceptionalism

How Washington shaped global policy toward sex and prostitution.

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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So excited for this book!!!

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution by Eva Payne

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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! ☂️

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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Come hang out at @redemmas.org on Wednesday October 1st!

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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:

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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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American Prestige @amprestigepod.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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"!

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Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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!

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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

An excellent recommendation!

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PDX Right Watch @pdxrightwatch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“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...

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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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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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

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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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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I wrote about the longer history of using "protecting" women to police them

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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Come see me and Tess Lefmann on Tuesday evening! @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Eva Payne @evapayne.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

I wrote a book and it has a cover!

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