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AbstractCobble's study of American social democratic feminism is a fascinating narrative of the lives of women who crossed the boundaries of class, race and nation-states to build a better world. Her chronological account of the careers and activism of these women is not only a major contribution to the history of feminism but also a significant addition to the study of social democracy worldwide.

Résumé Cet article donne un aperçu de l'information sur le trafic humain et la prostitution réunie par la Société des Nations dans les années 1920 et 1930. Les riches archives de cette organisation conservées à Genève contiennent de nombreuses données sur les conditions de travail de prostituées actives dans plus de cent villes à travers le monde, sur leurs antécédents et sur leurs motivations pour entrer dans la prostitution. Elles constituent donc une base de premier ordre pour l'étude comparative du trafic humain et du sexe tarifé à l'échelle mondiale. L'article fournit une brève histoire des origines du mouvement contre le trafic humain et de l'activisme initial de la SDN au début des années 1920. Il analyse les enquêtes menées par l'organisation internationale sur le trafic des femmes et des enfants du milieu des années 1920 au début des années 1930. Il rend compte des initiatives de la SDN en faveur de la réhabilitation des prostituées et de la prévention de la prostitution.

SummaryThis article analyses the debate on trafficking and policies to combat the recruitment of persons for commercial sex within the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children of the League of Nations. Its main argument is that the Committee's governmental and non-governmental representatives engaged in what might be called a "moral recruitment of women". This form of recruitment had a double purpose: to protect females from prostitution through the provision of "good employment", and to repress intermediaries of prostitution by means of criminalization. Three elements of the Committee's internal debates and concrete actions will receive special attention. Firstly, the ideological framework (feminism, social purity, humanitarianism, abolitionism, regulationism, and/or class); secondly, the gender dynamics (differences of opinion between the Committee's male and female representatives); and thirdly the degree of gendering (construction or reinforcement of gender roles and relations).

Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction /Magaly Rodríguez García , Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss -- Urban Overviews -- Europe -- Selling Sex in Amsterdam /Marion Pluskota -- Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges /Maja Mechant -- Sex for Sale in Florence /Michela Turno -- A Global History of Prostitution: London /Julia Laite -- Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia /Philippa Hetherington -- The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris /Susan P. Conner -- Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change /Yvonne Svanström -- Africa and the Middle East -- Prostitution in Cairo /Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani -- Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca /Liat Kozma -- Selling Sex in Istanbul /Mark David Wyers -- Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria's Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective /Mfon Umoren Ekpootu -- Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 /Deborah Bernstein , Hila Shamir , Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir -- The Americas -- A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires /Cristiana Schettini -- Prostitution in the us: Chicago /Mary Linehan -- Prostitution in Havana /Amalia L. Cabezas -- Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 /Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes -- The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries /Pascale Absi -- Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation /Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini -- Section 4Asia-Pacific -- Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present /Satarupa Dasgupta -- Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) /Isabelle Tracol-Huynh -- Prostitution in Shanghai /Sue Gronewold -- Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt /Shawna Herzog -- Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 /Raelene Frances -- Thematic Overviews -- "We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers' Rights"*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 /Marion Pluskota -- Working and Living Conditions /Raelene Frances -- Migration and Prostitution1 /Nicole Keusch -- Prostitution and Colonial Relations /Liat Kozma -- Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work /Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette -- Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work /Mark David Wyers -- A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work /Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -- The Social Profiles of Prostitutes /Maja Mechant -- Conclusion -- Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project /Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk , Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss.