Marion Pluskota
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M. Pluskota
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8568
- m.pluskota@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0868-0640
Marion Pluskota is assistant professor in Social and Economic History specialized in crime history and the history of prostitution/sex work.
Fields of interest
My main field of interests is the history of sex work and its criminalization, and gender relations in crime history from the 18th- to the early 20th-century in Europe. I am particularly interested in the use of the urban space for criminal/illegal/undesirable purpose and how gender influenced this geography.
Curriculum Vitae
I am a University Lecturer in Social History at Leiden University since 2017, with expertise in crime and sex work history.
I completed my PhD in 2012 at the University of Leicester, UK which was then published as Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports (2015). I have published extensively on the history of prostitution and continue to be interested in this topic in a long-term perspective.
In 2012, I moved to Leiden to become a post-doc and co-director of the NWO-project Crime and Gender, 1600-1900 led by Prof. Manon van der Heijden. I have been working on crime and gender relations in criminality in the nineteenth century, in Bologna, Amsterdam and Le Havre: I showed that the gender bias noticed in the UK judicial system was not as strong on the continent and that the type of crimes committed was linked to the development of the welfare state.
I directed various projects focusing on the use of the urban space, such as Dangerous Cities, Mapping Crime in 19th-century Amsterdam and Leiden, where crimes were mapped to highlight correlations between spatial features, crime opportunities, and gender. This project made use of GIS, linking criminal records with Leiden and Amsterdam cadasters. I also co-directed the project PROSPECT: The Spectacle of Prostitution, which looked at the material culture surrounding 19th-century prostitutes in Amsterdam.
My new research project focuses on mapping sex work in 20th-century Amsterdam and analyzing the power relations at play in the geography of sex work.
Key publications
Pluskota, Marion. “Governing Sexuality: Regulating Prostitution in Early Modern Europe.” In New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500, edited by Simon Gunn and Tom Hulme, 87–108. Routledge, 2020.
Pluskota M.; Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Journal of Social History, Volume 51, Issue 4, 1 June 2018, Pages 717–735, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx156
Pluskota M. (2015), Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports Perspectives in Economic and Social History. Abingdon: Routledge.
Pluskota M. (2017), “Prostitution and Labour Relations”. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van, Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.) Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.book chapter
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
- Turner T., Johnston H. & Pluskota M. (Eds.) (2023), Policing women: histories in the Western World, 1800 to 1950: Routledge.
- Pluskota M. & Kamp J.M. (2023), The lure of the city: migration, crime, and urbanization in Amsterdam, 1850-1905, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 20(1): 93-120.
- Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. (2022), Street crimes. In: Heuvel D. van den (Ed.), Early modern streets; a European perspective. London : Routledge.
- Pluskota M. (2022), 1985: eerste wereld hoeren congres in Amsterdam. In: Lucassen L., Heerma van Voss L., ’t Hart M., van der Heijden M. & Bouras N. (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland: Ambo/Anthos.
- Pluskota M., Oosten R.M.R., Tegelaar S. van & Windt M. van der (2022), Gender and the geography of crime in nineteenth-century Leiden and Amsterdam, Crime, History and Societies 26(2): 5-23.
- Pluskota M. (2021), Review of: Caslin S. & Laite J. (2020), Wolfenden's Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain. Genders and Sexualities in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Journal of British Studies 60: 992-994.
- Pluskota M. (6 November 2021), Heksenjacht van Halsema is gedoemd te mislukken. Trouw, Opinie.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der, Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. (Eds.) (2020), Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der, Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. (2020), Introduction: women and crime in history. In: Heijden M.P.C. van der, Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. van (Eds.), Women's criminality in Europe, 1600-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-25.
- Pluskota M. (2020), Freedom of movement, access to the urban centres, and abolition of slavery in the French Caribbean, International Review of Social History 65(S28): 93-115.
- Singh S.B. & Pluskota M. (2020), Homo sapiens and Criminality, The Oriental Anthropologist : .
- Pluskota M. (2020), Governing Sexuality: Regulating Prostitution in Early Modern Europe. In: Gunn S. & Hulmes T. (Eds.), New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500: Routledge .
- Pluskota M. (2019), Transnational crime: history in the making. In: Adam T. (Ed.), Yearbook of transnational history no. 2 243-257.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der & Pluskota M. (2018), Introduction to crime and gender in history, Journal of Social History 51(4): 661-671.
- Pluskota M. (2018), Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Journal of Social History 51(4): 717-735.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der & Pluskota M. (Eds.) (2018), Special section: Crime and Gender: Oxford University Press.
- Muurling S.T.D. & Pluskota M. (2017), The gendered geography of violence in Bologna, 17-19th centuries. In: Simonton D. (Ed.), Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience. Abington: Routledge. 153-164.
- Pluskota M. (2017), Prostitution and Labour Relations. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van & Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.), Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.
- Pluskota M. (2017), Prostitution in Amsterdam, 1600-2000. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van & Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.), Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.
- Pluskota M. (2017), Prostitution in The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. In: Chaumont J.M., Rodriguez Garcia M. & Servais P. (Eds.), Trafficking in Women (1924-1926). Geneva: United Nations.
- Pluskota M. (2016), Review of: Peakman Julie & Plunkett Peg, Memoirs of a Whore (London, 2015) in Low Countries. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 13(2).
- Pluskota M. (2016), Eighteenth-century Prostitutes in Bristol. In: Dresser M. (Ed.), Women and the City: Bristol c.1400-2000. Bristol: Redcliffe Press.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der & Pluskota M. (2015), Leniency versus Toughening? The Prosecution of Male and Female Violence in 19th Century Holland, Journal of Social History 49(1): 149-167.
- Pluskota M. (2015), Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports. Perspectives in Economic and Social History. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Pluskota M. (2015), "Criminal families" and the Court: Co-offending in Amsterdam, 1897-1902, History of the Family 20(2): 270-290.
- Pluskota M. (2015), Urban Governance and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Port Cities in France and England. In: Kenny N. & Madgin R. (Eds.), Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History.
- Pluskota M. (2015), Review of: Kushner N. (2013), Erotic Exchanges, The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press. Gender and History 27(1): 223.
- Pluskota M. (2014), Genesis of a red-light district: prostitution in Nantes, 1750-1815, Urban history 41(1): 22-41.
- Pluskota M. (2014), Research in Urban History: Recent Theses on Gender and the City, Urban history 41(3): 537-546.
- Schmidt A. & Pluskota M. (2013), Gevaarlijke vrouwen, gewelddadige mannen? Een review van het historisch onderzoek naar criminaliteit en gender in Europese steden, 1600–1800, Stadsgeschiedenis 8(1): 60-77.
- Pluskota Marion (2013), ‘Bagnard’, ‘Galérien’ and ‘Forcat'. In: Lucien Faggion & Christophe Regina (Eds.), Dictionnaire de la Méchanceté. Paris 34-36 and passim.
- Pluskota M. (2013) Review of Julia Laite, 'Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885–1960' (Basingstoke, 2012) in International Review of Social History, 58, 3 (December, 2013). Review of: Laite J. (2012), Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885–1960.. Gender and Sexuality in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. International Review of Social History 58(3): 526-28.
- Pluskota M. (2012) Review of J. Walkowitz, Nights Out, Life in Cosmopolitan London (New York, 2012). Review of: Walkowitz J. (2012), Nights Out, Life in Cosmopolitan London. New York. Urban history 39(4): 687-88.
- Pluskota M. (2012), Prostitution and Police in a Port City during the Revolution, Women's History Magazine 68: 7-12.
- Editor-in-chief
- Member of the editorial board