Narrating the Sex Trade: Bodies and Boundaries from the Eastern Borderlands of Europe

Examining a range of sex trade accounts from state documents, activist groups, folk narratives, and key figures in Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, this book applies new materialist perspectives to cultural history, coloniality, and imperiality in the study of Europe’s eastern borderlands.

Tracie L. Wilson is based in Leipzig and is a research associate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her recent publications include ＂Untangling Invasive Narratives: Boundaries, Belonging, and Narrative Agency＂ (Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2023) and ＂Emotions of Contested Migrations: The Return of the Wolf across the Polish-German Border＂ (Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity, 2024).