Addressing the need to inform the predominant value debates with evidence-based analyses, Sex Work by Numbers provides an overview of knowns and unknowns of sex for sale based on cutting-edge science with an economic approach....Loe edasi...
Drawing on original ethnographic research, this book looks at the behaviour and attitudes of lap dancing club customers. Little has been said about customers from a UK perspective and Colosi contracts her findings with the US based literature; the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479821174)
An inside look at the lives of gay male and transgender sex workers in ChinaIn Unlocking the Red Closet, Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang takes us to an upscale gay bar in the port city of Tianjin in Northeastern China, where the male sta...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479821228)
An inside look at the lives of gay male and transgender sex workers in ChinaIn Unlocking the Red Closet, Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang takes us to an upscale gay bar in the port city of Tianjin in Northeastern China, where the male sta...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803996646)
The first trade book in decades to explore the scandalous story of the Cleveland Street Scandal and how it almost destroyed the Establishment. ...Loe edasi...
NEW PREFACE In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation that criminalized the purchase of sexual services which sought to curb demand and support women to exiting the sex industry. Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009235501)
Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of labour rights at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. The primary di...Loe edasi...
This book challenges many suppositions surrounding sex tourism, suggesting that elderly males who seek romance and are caught up in their fantasies of finding love with exotic black women are taken advantage of, even while the women are often delu...Loe edasi...
This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. With its wide geographical focus from Italy to the USSR via Sweden, Germany, occupied Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the international stage...Loe edasi...
First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in Belgium In 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the decriminalisation of sex work. This move positioned the small nation as the first country in...Loe edasi...
“As dangerous as if she stood on the corner of the street exploding gunpowder.”This was the view of ‘Miles’, a correspondent in the Bedfordshire Mercury, writing about the dangerousness of prostitutes in 1874. They were considered a scourge by the Vi...Loe edasi...
Throughout the world, vulnerable people are being deceived into entering abusive journeys. Whether in the organ trade, exploitative labour businesses or forced criminality, their lives will never be the same.This book traces the journey of victims/su...Loe edasi...
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC licence. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for policy. Despite economic development, modern slavery persists all around the world. The issue is not only one of...Loe edasi...
This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities. An issue that has long been the subject of much debate amongst feminists, governments and communities alike, the history of...Loe edasi...
Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman? In this book, Lawford-Smith argues that commercial sex is quintessentially hierarchical sex, and it is wrong both to have and to perpetuate a market in hierarchical sex. Pepper argues that men are per...Loe edasi...
Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman? In this book, Holly Lawford-Smith argues that it is wrong: commercial sex is quintessentially hierarchical sex, and it is wrong both to have, and to perpetuate a market in, hierarchical sex. Angie Pep...Loe edasi...
Using unpublished email interviews collected for a Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales, in their own words. The author Natasha Mulvihill also re-interv...Loe edasi...
This book expands the literature on social harm by applying the concept of zemia to international human trafficking. It draws attention not only to various structurally imbedded harms, but also to the wider consequences of such harms. ...Loe edasi...
Pimp-controlled sex workers, exploited migrants, domestic servants, and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world-including in the Unite...Loe edasi...
The worlds first behind the scenes guide to the Oldest and most secretive industry on the planet. A no holes barred guide to the hidden world of escorting, prostitution and turning tricks....Loe edasi...
Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didnt apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocqs depictions of Storyville...Loe edasi...
This book examines sex worker health and the concept of care among sex workers in Rhode Island using mixed methods research conceived of and led by Ocean State Advocacy (OA), a grassroots collective of sex workers in Rhode Island. Drawing upon surve...Loe edasi...
A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeless Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our ideas about desire, class, and power...Loe edasi...
This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. It encourages comparative perspectives, which have the potential to question, deconstruct and re-adjust distinctions between western, eastern, northern...Loe edasi...
Turkeys national counter-trafficking rhetoric is influenced by ideas about irregular migration, national security and illegal working. Having adopted definitions and legislation from the UN Protocol, sex trafficking is framed as a problem of org...Loe edasi...
Throughout the world, vulnerable people are being deceived into entering abusive journeys. Whether in the organ trade, exploitative labour businesses or forced criminality, their lives will never be the same.This book traces the journey of victims/su...Loe edasi...
The new, third edition of this groundbreaking collection assembles the most current, comprehensive, and nuanced studies on various forms of sexual labor, the lived experiences of sex workers, and the political, cultural, and legal implications of...Loe edasi...
The new, third edition of this groundbreaking collection assembles the most current, comprehensive, and nuanced studies on various forms of sexual labor, the lived experiences of sex workers, and the political, cultural, and legal implications of...Loe edasi...
One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This b...Loe edasi...
It’s 1953 in Southern California, Patty is five years old, and her mother hasn’t been home in two days. A police officer eventually arrives and takes Patty and her brothers to juvenile hall—their mother has been drinking again.Twenty-eight ye...Loe edasi...
This book is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the wellbeing of people operating in the sex industries, with a focus...Loe edasi...
Shattering the popular myth that porn is harmless, the personal accounts of 25 brave women in He Chose Porn over Me reveal the real-life trauma experienced by women at the hands of their porn-consuming partners men who were supposed to care for the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jul-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529216554)
In this accessible study of the sex industry in England and Wales, Natasha Mulvihill (criminology, University of Bristol) interweaves the voices of sex workers (and a few sex buyers) from email interviews with more than 40 people. Those interview...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529214635)
The author examines how global financial programs and policies have impacted conditions that have created human trafficking flows in different countries and how these differ by geographic region. She considers how factors like inequality, globali...Loe edasi...
Holy hell, this book was intenseit kept me on edge the whole time. I absolutely LOVED this book. Reader Review Ben, I need you. Help me. PLEASE HELP ME! It was an accidentbut theres so much blood ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198863885)
The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gen...Loe edasi...
This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries. Generally, the key debates on sex work have centred around arguments proposed by the oppressive an...Loe edasi...
Exploring gendered agency under neoliberalism by contextualising and historicising contemporary debates on sex work, Egle Cesnulyte features primary accounts from women selling sex in Kenya, arguing that their role in our understanding of gender and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478021056)
In this special issue, contributors theorize sexual labor as both work and a site of labor resistance and transformation. Rather than critiquing sex work itself, they consider what scholars of migration, sexuality, digital labor, and service work can...Loe edasi...
More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, sp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299331900)
Slavery and sexuality in the ancient world are well researched on their own, yet rarely have they been examined together. Chapters address a wealth of art, literature, and drama to explore a wide range of issues, including gendered power dynamics, se...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228006657)
The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully...Loe edasi...
This valuable exploration of work duality calls for recognition of the experiences of sex workers, addressing race, culture and sex work in the UK against the backdrop of Brexit. Based on extensive empirical work, it illustrates accounts of individua...Loe edasi...
