The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial, temporal and political context.Understanding Sex for Sale aims to understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are delineated, contested and understood in different spaces, places and times; with a particular focus on identifying how the relation between sex and money is interpreted and enacted. Divided into three parts, this interdisciplinary volume offers contributions that discuss ongoing theoretical issues and analytical challenges. Some chapters focus on how prostitution, sex work, or sex for sale have been regulated by the authorities and on the understandings that regulations are built upon. Other chapters investigate the experiences of sex workers and sex buyers, examining how these actors adjust to or resist the categorisation processes, control and stigma they are subjected to. Finally, a third group of chapters discuss contemporary definitional issues produced by various actors tasked with controlling prostitution or offering social services to its participants.Advancing and placing analytical tools at the forefront of the discussion, Understanding Sex for Sale appeals to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers interested in fields such as, sociology, anthropology, criminology, history, human geography and gender studies.
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Understanding Sex for Sale aims to understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are delineated, contested and understood in different spaces, places and times; with a particular focus on identifying how the relation between sex and money is interpreted and enacted.
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Chapter 1 Speaking about sex for sale historically, spatially and politicallyPart I: Historically speakingMay-Len Skilbrei and Marlene Spanger Chapter 2 What’s the problem with prostitution? Shifting problematisations of men and women selling sexJens Rydström Chapter 3 Surveillance of dangerous liaisons through notions of sex and money Marlene Spanger Chapter 4 The production and transformation of prostitution spaces: The red light district of CataniaPatrizia Testaí Part II: Speaking from experienceChapter 5 Intensive mothering as cultural script: Boundary setting among street-involved womenKyria Brown, Susan Dewey, and Treena Orchard Chapter 6 Beyond the client: Exploring men's sexual scriptingChiara Bertone and Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto Chapter 7 The Intimate Bazaar of Female Sex TourismMarie Bruvik Heinskou Chapter 8 A ‘continuum of sexual economic exchanges’ or ‘weak agency’? Female migrant sex work in Switzerland Milena Chimienti and Marylène Lieber Chapter 9 The Fluidity of a ‘Happy Ending’: Chinese masseuses in the NetherlandsMarie-Louise Janssen Chapter 10 The 'Normal' and the 'Other' Woman of Prostitution Policy Debates: New Concerns and Solutions May-Len Skilbrei Chapter 11 The gender of trafficking, or why can’t men be sex slaves?Kerwin Kaye Part III: Speaking about controlChapter 12 Spatial Justice: how the police craft the city by enforcing law on prostitutionAlexander Kondakov
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Digging under the common misperceptions that inform our unease with sex and money, Skilbrei and Spanger’s collection rethinks scholarly theory and provides practical tools for policy makers, scholars and activists in addressing sex for saleBarbara Brents, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USAThis book is a must read. As a collection, it offers something unique, scholarly and very original. It shows the multiplicity of meanings, all contextually bound, ascribed to prostitution. Essential reading for scholars, campaigners, students and researchers.Jo Phoenix, Professor in Criminology, Open University, UK
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781138092969
Publisert
2018-07-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
218

Biographical note

May-Len Skilbrei is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She works within the fields of criminology, gender studies, and sociology of law, and does research on the formulation and implementation of legislation and welfare policies on commercial sex and human trafficking nationally and regionally (the Nordic region), as well as on criminal justice approaches to sexual violence. She has published broadly on these topics.

Marlene Spanger is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. Spanger’s research fields include ethnographic fieldwork and discursive formations within the policy fields of prostitution and human trafficking, transnational intimacies and migration with a special attention to gender, sexual and racial issues.