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Hannah Frydman

Hannah Frydman is a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, where she is specializing in modern European history and women’s and gender history. Her research investigates the convergence of media, business, gender, and sexuality in the Parisian classifieds during the 19th and early 20th centuries. icon

Policing Backpage and the Backpages

By Hannah Frydman

We tend to think of the 21st century and its digitally-mediated, commodified, sexualized reality as a brave new world, but we’ve been here before ...

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