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Prostitution in the Community

Author : Sarah Kingston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134664745
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Prostitution in the Community written by Sarah Kingston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in ‘their’ neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and literature has begun to explore prostitution from the standpoint of the community, there is no comprehensive text which brings together some of the current literature in this area. This book aspires to cast light on some of this work by exploring the nature, extent and visibility of prostitution in residential communities and business areas, considering the legal and social context in which it is situated, and the community responses of those who live and work in areas of sex work. This book aims to examine current literature on the impacts of prostitution in residential areas and considers how different policy approaches employed by the police and local authorities have mediated and shaped the nature of sex work in different communities. It explores what communities think about prostitution and those involved, as well as studies the techniques and strategies communities have utilized to take action against prostitution in their neighbourhoods. This book will also demonstrate the diversity of public attitudes, action and reaction to prostitution in the community. This book is a useful contribution for academics and researchers in the fields of Criminology and Sociology who wish to understand current policy initiatives surrounding the issue of prostitution in local, national and international community settings.

Prostitution and Victorian Society

Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521270649
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Prostitution and Victorian Society written by Judith R. Walkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-10-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.

Prostitution in Medieval Society

Author : Leah Lydia Otis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226640345
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Prostitution in Medieval Society written by Leah Lydia Otis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of sexuality." – Catharine R. Stimpson

Whores in History

Author : Nickie Roberts
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Whores in History written by Nickie Roberts and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberts' vivid, challenging, and impressively researched defense of the unrepentant whore, whom she regards as the most maligned woman in history, tells the story of the prostitute with hundreds of anecdotes of bawdy-house and brothel life. Her arguments will engage male "experts" and feminist "sisters" alike. Illustrations.

Legalizing Prostitution

Author : Ronald Weitzer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814794637
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Legalizing Prostitution written by Ronald Weitzer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution. Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Using America as a backdrop, Weitzer draws on extensive field research in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany to illustrate alternatives to American-style criminalization of sex workers. These cases are then used to develop a roster of “best practices” that can serve as a model for other nations considering legalization. Legalizing Prostitution provides a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of political dynamics, policy outcomes, and red-light landscapes in nations where prostitution has been legalized and regulated by the government, presenting a rich and novel portrait of the multifaceted world of legal sex for sale.

Liberalism and Prostitution

Author : Peter de Marneffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199726108
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and Prostitution written by Peter de Marneffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil libertarians characterize prostitution as a "victimless crime," and argue that it ought to be legalized. Feminist critics counter that prostitution is not victimless, since it harms the people who do it. Civil libertarians respond that most women freely choose to do this work, and that it is paternalistic for the government to limit a person's liberty for her own good. In this book Peter de Marneffe argues that although most prostitution is voluntary, paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are nonetheless morally justifiable. If prostitution is commonly harmful in the way that feminist critics maintain, then this argument for prostitution laws is not objectionably moralistic and some prostitution laws violate no one's rights. Paternalistic prostitution laws in some form are therefore consistent with the fundamental principles of contemporary liberalism.

Not a Choice, Not a Job

Author : JANICE G. RAYMOND
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346278
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Not a Choice, Not a Job written by JANICE G. RAYMOND and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation ago, most people did not know how ubiquitous and grave human trafficking was. Now many people agree that the $35.7 billion business is an appalling violation of human rights. But when confronted with prostitution, many people experience an odd disconnect because prostitution is shrouded in myths, among them the claims that ôprostitution is inevitable,ö and ôprostitution is a job or service like any other.ö In Not a Choice, Not a Job, Janice Raymond challenges both the myths and their perpetrators. Raymond demonstrates that prostitution is not sex but sexual exploitation, and that legalizing and decriminalizing the system of prostitutionùas opposed to the prostituted womenùpromotes sex trafficking, expands the sex industry, and invites organized crime. Specifically, Raymond exposes how legalized prostitution in the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, and Nevada worsens crime and endangers women. In contrast, she reveals, when governments work to prevent the demand for prostitution by prosecuting pimps, brothels, and prostitution usersùas in Norway, Sweden, and Icelandùtrafficking does not increase, women are better protected, and fewer men buy sex. Raymond expands the boundaries of scholarship in womenÆs studies, making this book indispensable to human rights advocates around the world.

Male Sex Work and Society

Author : Victor Minichiello
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 1939594006
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Male Sex Work and Society written by Victor Minichiello and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in which we view both male sex work as a field of commerce and male sex worker themselves. Leading contributors examine the field both historically and cross-culturally from fields including public health, sociology, psychology, social services, history, filmography, economics, mental health, criminal justice, geography, and migration studies, and more. Synthesizing introductions by the editors help the reader understand the implications of the findings and conclusions for scholars, practitioners, students, and members of the interested/concerned public.

Pimp State

Author : Kat Banyard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571278248
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Pimp State written by Kat Banyard and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First Century's big questions. Should it be legal to pay for sex? Isn't it a woman's choice whether she strips for money? Could online porn warping the attitudes of a generation of boys? An increasingly popular set of answers maintains that prostitution is just work, porn is fantasy, demand is inevitable; so fully legalise the sex trade and it can be made safe. Kat Banyard contends that these are profoundly dangerous myths. Sexual consent is not a commodity, objectification and abuse are inherent to prostitution, and the sex trade poses a grave threat to the struggle for women's equality.Skilfully weaving together first-hand investigation, interviews and the latest research, Pimp State powerfully argues that sex trade myth-makers will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Leaving Prostitution

Author : Sharon S. Oselin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081477072X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Prostitution written by Sharon S. Oselin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, Sharon S. OselinOCOsa Leaving Prostitution aexplores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutesOCO transition out of sex work. Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level sex workers, Oselin illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills. Oselin paints a full picture of the difficulties these women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, she offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for these women. A powerful ethnographic account, a Leaving Prostitution aprovides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out of sex work."

The Price of Sex

Author : Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134020511
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Sex written by Belinda Brooks-Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide a critical perspective on prostitution policies and the legal chaos and complexities that surround them. It addresses the range of issues and contemporary debates on the sex industry, and then goes on to show how these issues have been addressed in policy terms, the problems that have emerged in this, and how a social policy might be formulated to minimize harm and enhance public understanding.

Revolting Prostitutes

Author : Molly Smith
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786633604
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Revolting Prostitutes written by Molly Smith and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.

Women Working: Prostitution Now

Author : Eileen McLeod
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000634183
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Women Working: Prostitution Now written by Eileen McLeod and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women who work as prostitutes are struggling against a disadvantaged position in society. The relative poverty in which many women still live in is seen as the cause for prostitution, in that sex is their most saleable commodity and can bring them substantial financial rewards. Originally published in 1982 and drawing on her involvement with PROS (Programme for Reform of the Law on Soliciting), one of the Street Prostitutes’ Campaigns in Britain, and on interviews with prostitutes and their clients, the author examines how the financial benefits are offset by the attitudes prostitutes encounter from men. It is shown that while, in some ways, the role of client reflects men’s advantageous social position, male clients are often trying to compensate for failure in their marriage, or an inability to conform to the accepted masculine role. What the clients want and the conditions in which prostitutes work are discussed in separate chapters. Meanwhile, the Law, the media and public opinion unite to protect the public face of morality and to condemn prostitutes as a corrupting influence in society. This study concludes by showing how prostitutes’ campaigns are struggling with these issues and relates this to the feminist efforts to improve the conditions in which women exist and work.

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution

Author : Scott Cunningham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199915245
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution written by Scott Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of the economics of sex work"--

Sex Workers Unite

Author : Melinda Chateauvert
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807061239
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Sex Workers Unite written by Melinda Chateauvert and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, Sex Workers Unite is a fresh history that places prostitutes, hustlers, escorts, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of America’s major civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored and obscured, in this provocative history Melinda Chateauvert recasts sex workers as savvy political organizers—not as helpless victims in need of rescue. Even before transgender sex worker Sylvia Rivera threw a brick and sparked the Stonewall Riot in 1969, these trailblazing activists and allies challenged criminal sex laws and “whorephobia,” and were active in struggles for gay liberation, women’s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition. Although the multibillion-dollar international sex industry thrives, the United States remains one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution, and these discriminatory laws put workers at risk. In response, sex workers have organized to improve their working conditions and to challenge police and structural violence. Through individual confrontations and collective campaigns, they have pushed the boundaries of conventional organizing, called for decriminalization, and have reframed sex workers’ rights as human rights. Telling stories of sex workers, from the frontlines of the 1970s sex wars to the modern-day streets of SlutWalk, Chateauvert illuminates an underrepresented movement, introducing skilled activists who have organized a global campaign for self-determination and sexual freedom that is as multifaceted as the sex industry and as diverse as human sexuality.

Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution

Author : Isabel Crowhurst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135113373X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution written by Isabel Crowhurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution 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 well-being of people operating in the sex industries. With a focus on three vast and extremely diverse regions, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, this book provides a unique vantage point that shows how interlinked these organizations’ histories and configurations are. TSOs are fascinating research sites because they operate as zones of contestation which translate their understandings of sex work and prostitution into different support practices and advocacy initiatives. This book reveals that these organizations are not external to normative power but participate in it and are subject to it, conditioning how they can exist, who they can reach out to, where, and what they can achieve. Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is a resource for scholars, policymakers, and activists involved in research on, and work with third sector organizations in the fields of sex work and prostitution, gender and sexuality, and human rights among others.

Prostitution

Author : Teela Sanders
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 184787066X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Prostitution written by Teela Sanders and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative and comprehensive introduction to the sex industry is as welcome as it is timely.... This is a rewarding and topical book that I would urge all interested parties to consult. Graham Scambler, Professor of Medical Sociology, University College London. A remarkably thorough analysis of prostitution in contemporary society. Situating sex work at the intersection of economy, occupation, and emotion, the authors illuminate the complex forces that shape prostitution within an emerging global order. Bringing their analysis full circle, they close with a helpful exploration of the methods by which researchers are able to investigate an area of such danger and controversy. All in all, a courageous and important book. Jeff Ferrell, Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK, and Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, USA. This excellent text fills a gap in the market as it explores the full range of issues covering sex work, policy and politics....A fascinating and informative text which will become the leading handbook in this area. Dr Louise Westmarland, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University Many commentators have attempted to analyze and explain the nature of prostitution. However, this is the first textbook to offer a complete overview of the way it operates within contemporary society, its characteristics, organzational structures and cultural contexts. The book also explores how criminal, social and health policies have sought to regulate and control the selling of sex. This introduction to the sociology and criminology of sex work is: " comprehensive - covering all key areas common to the study of the female sex industry and also includes male and transgender sex work, and the sexual exploitation of young people " interdisciplinary - combining sociological approaches with criminology, criminal justice studies, social policy, health research and sexuality studies " comparative - including the international context of the sex industry, drawing on European and other examples of law, regulation and systems that govern the sex industry " student-focused - offering a lively writing style, case studies, summaries of relevant legislation, study questions and guidance on further reading " accessible - assisting student learning and aiding lecturers in their teaching. Written by leading experts with over 20 years' experience in researching and teaching in the field, this is a must for all criminology, criminal justice and sociology students taking modules in sex industry and prostitution studies. It will also appeal to those in gender studies and social policy.