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A new conscience and an ancient evil
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ISBN: 0252090365 9780252090363 0252027841 0252070925 9780252027840 9780252070921 Year: 2002 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,


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Global women, colonial ports
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ISBN: 143846262X 9781438462622 9781438462615 Year: 2017 Publisher: Albany

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Global Women, Colonial Ports is a transnational history of state-regulated prostitution in the Middle East and North Africa between the two world wars. Beginning with international efforts to eradicate traffic in women and children, Liat Kozma examines French and British policies regarding local and foreign prostitutes in the region and shows how these policies affected and interacted with global migration routes of prostitutes and procurers. In so doing, she reveals how colonial domination mediated global mobility of people, practices, and ideas. Kozma weaves together the perspectives of colonial and local feminists with those of medical doctors, demonstrating that debates on prostitution were globalized and that transnational networks of knowledge and activism existed. She also explores the League of Nations' involvement in this social issue. As a history of the Middle East, the book joins recent scholarship on modern globalization and the integration of the region in global economic, activist, social, and religious interconnectedness.


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Commodification of sexual labor : the contribution of internet communities to prostitution reform
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ISBN: 1612334415 9781612334417 9781612334158 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boca Raton, Florida : Dissertation. com,

Disorderly women in eighteenth-century London : prostitution and control in the metropolis, 1730-1830
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ISBN: 0582263956 0582264219 9780582263956 9780582264212 1317889878 1138165727 1315842777 1317889886 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole, its policing systems and its attitudes towards the female urban poor. Drawing on the archives of London's parishes, jury records, reports from Southwark gaol as well as other sources which have been overlooked by historians, it provides a fascinating study for all those interested in Georgian society.


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The devil's chain : prostitution and social control in partitioned Poland
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ISBN: 1501701665 0801454190 1501701657 9781501701665 9780801454196 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press,

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In the half-century before Poland's long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country's burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil's Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety, and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation with prostitution in the context of Poland's struggle for political independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces the Poles' growing anxiety about white slavery, venereal disease, and eugenics by examining the regulation of the female body, the rise of medical authority, and the role of social reformers in addressing the problem of paid sex. Stauter-Halsted argues that the sale of sex was positioned at the juncture of mass and elite cultures, affecting nearly every aspect of urban life and bringing together sharply divergent social classes in what had long been a radically stratified society. She captures the experiences of the impoverished women who turned to the streets and draws a vivid picture of the social milieu that shaped their choices. The Devil's Chain demonstrates that discussions of prostitution and its attendant disorders-sexual deviancy, alcoholism, child abuse, vagrancy, and other related problems-reflected differing visions for the future of the Polish nation.


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Intersektionalität und Gouvernementalität : Die Regierung von Prostitution in Luxemburg
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ISBN: 3847410970 3847421131 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich

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Welche Machtlogiken wirken bei der Interpretation von Prostitution als Problem individueller moralischer Führung einerseits und als gesamtgesellschaftliches, politisches Problem andererseits? Die Autorin verbindet zwei Schlüsselkonzepte aktueller politischer und feministischer Theorie - Intersektionalität und Gouvernementalität - mit der historischen Analyse der Problematisierung von Prostitution und ihren Regierungsweisen Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie zeigt empirisch auf, dass verschiedene gesellschaftliche Gruppen jeweils spezifisch moralisch regiert wurden und plädiert für ein politisches und prozessorientiertes Verständnis von Intersektionalität, so dass differenzierte Mechanismen der Machtausübung erfassbar werden. Which power logics work in the interpretation of prostitution as a problem of individual moral leadership on the one hand and as a political problem for society as a whole on the other? The author combines two key concepts of current political and feminist theory - intersectionality and governmentality - with the historical analysis of the problematization of prostitution and its modes of government at the beginning of the 20th century. It empirically shows that different social groups were each specifically morally governed and argues for a political and process-oriented understanding of intersectionality, so that differentiated mechanisms of the exercise of power can be grasped.


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Policing pleasure : sex work, policy, and the state in global perspective
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ISBN: 9780814785096 9780814785089 0814785085 0814785093 9780814785102 0814785107 9780814785119 0814785115 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the city, disease-free, and able to work. On the other side of the world, Min stands singing karaoke with one of her regular clients, warily eyeing the door lest a raid by the anti-trafficking Public Security Bureau disrupt their evening by placing one or both of them in jail.Whether in Mexico or China, sex work-related public policy varies considerably from one community to the next. A range of policies dictate what is permissible, many of them intending to keep sex workers themselves healthy and free from harm. Yet often, policies with particular goals end up having completely different consequences.Policing Pleasure examines cross-cultural public policies related to sex work, bringing together ethnographic studies from around the world—from South Africa to India—to offer a nuanced critique of national and municipal approaches to regulating sex work. Contributors offer new theoretical and methodological perspectives that move beyond already well-established debates between “abolitionists” and “sex workers’ rights advocates” to document both the intention of public policies on sex work and their actual impact upon those who sell sex, those who buy sex, and public health more generally.


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Demanding sex
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ISBN: 9780754671503 075467150X 9780754688464 0754688461 9786611765989 6611765980 1317153227 9781317153221 1317153219 9781317153214 1281765988 9781281765987 9781315576374 9781317153207 9781138275515 1315576376 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aldershot, England Burlington, VT Ashgate

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Interrogating supply/demand from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, this collection focuses on the supply/demand dynamic of prostitution. It brings into play a range of other societal, economic and psychological factors such as the social construction of sexuality, the viability of alternative choices for prostitutes and clients, and the impact of regulatory regimes on the provision of sexual services.


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Transgender sex work and society
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ISBN: 9781939594228 9781939594235 1939594235 1939594227 9781939594402 1939594405 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Harrington Park Press,


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Designing Prostitution Policy : Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade
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ISBN: 9781447324263 9781447335191 1447335198 1447324250 1447324269 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. While the debate on regulating prostitution usually focuses on national policy, it is local policy measures that have the most impact on the ground. This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of prostitution policy at the local level and carefully situates local policy practices in national policy making and transnational trends in labour migration and exploitation. Based on detailed comparative research in Austria and the Netherlands, and bringing in experiences in countries such as New Zealand and Sweden, it analyses the policy instruments employed by local administrators to control prostitution and sex workers. Bridging the gap between theory and policy, emphasizing the multilevel nature of prostitution policy, while also highlighting more effective policies on prostitution, migration and labour exploitation, this unique book fills a gap in the literature on this contentious and important social issue.

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