Misogynoir and the public woman: analog and digital sexualization of women in public from the Civil War to the era of Kamala Harris

Figures & data

Figure 1. Nashville Experiment Prostitution License, reproduced from Jones, courtesy of Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Photograph of prostitution license dated November 24, 1863, issued by office of Provost Marshall: “License is Hereby Granted to Annie Johnson a Public Woman to pursue her avocation in the City of Nashville, Tenn., she having received a Surgeon’s Certificate of soundness. If found plying her avocation without such License and Certificate she will be imprisoned in the Work-House for a period of not less than thirty days.”

Figure 2. Schafer and Vater bisque figurine, circa 1915. Image courtesy of Kenneth Florey.

Photograph of a 5.75-inch bisque figure of caricatured Black woman in corset and bloomers holding a “Votes for Women” sign.