Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.

List of Illustrations 1 Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction  Magaly Rodríguez García, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss Part 1: Urban Overviews Section 1: Europe 2 Selling Sex in Amsterdam  Marion Pluskota 3 Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges  Maja Mechant 4 Sex for Sale in Florence  Michela Turno 5 A Global History of Prostitution: London  Julia Laite 6 Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia  Philippa Hetherington 7 The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris  Susan P. Conner 8 Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change  Yvonne Svanström Section 2: Africa and the Middle East 9 Prostitution in Cairo  Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani 10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca  Liat Kozma 11 Selling Sex in Istanbul  Mark David Wyers 12 Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective  Mfon Umoren Ekpootu 13 Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010  Deborah Bernstein, Hila Shamir, Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir Section 3: The Americas 14 A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires  Cristiana Schettini 15 Prostitution in the us: Chicago  Mary Linehan 16 Prostitution in Havana  Amalia L. Cabezas 17 Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006  Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes 18 The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosi (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries  Pascale Absi 19 Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation  Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini Section 4: Asia-Pacific 20 Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present  Satarupa Dasgupta 21 Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954)  Isabelle Tracol-Huynh 22 Prostitution in Shanghai  Sue Gronewold 23 Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt  Shawna Herzog 24 Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788  Raelene Frances Part 2: Thematic Overviews 25 “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010  Marion Pluskota 26 Working and Living Conditions  Raelene Frances 27 Migration and Prostitution  Nicole Keusch 28 Prostitution and Colonial Relations  Liat Kozma 29 Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work  Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette 30 Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work  Mark David Wyers 31 A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 32 The Social Profiles of Prostitutes  Maja Mechant Part 3: Conclusion 33 Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss