Lexington Books
Pages: 406
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Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-0-7391-4385-8 • Hardback • April 2011 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7391-8448-6 • Paperback • May 2013 • $72.99 • (£56.00)
978-0-7391-4387-2 • eBook • April 2011 • $69.00 • (£53.00)
Rochelle L. Dalla is associate professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Lynda M. Baker was an associate professor (retired 2010) in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University.
John DeFrain is professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Celia Williamson is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Toledo.
Introduction
Part I. Europe
Chapter One: Sex Workers' Rights and Health: The Case of The Netherlands
Chapter Two: Uncomfortable Intersections? The Sexual Exploitation of Bangladeshi British Muslim Girls
Chapter Three: Bellweather Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers
Chapter 4: Female Prostitution in Russia: Yesterday and Today
Part II. Latin America
Chapter Five: The Prostitution of Women, Men, and Children: A Brazilian Perspective
Chapter Six: Trafficking of Women in Mexico: Sexual Exploitation and Reproductive Health Status
Chapter Seven: Selling Bodies and Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution in Mexico
Chapter Eight: U.S.-Mexico Borderland Female Sex Workers: Family Responsibilities and Risks for Depression
Part III. North America
Chapter Nine: From Street Corner to Statehouse: Survivors' Struggle for Civil Rights
Chapter Ten: The Identity of Prostituted Women and Implications for Clinical Practice
Chapter Eleven: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City
Chapter Twelve: Collapsing This Hushed House: Deconstructing Cultural Images Of Child Prostitution in the United States
Chapter Thirteen: The Regulation of Adult Sex Work and its Impact on the Safety, Security, and Well-Being of People Working in the Sex Industry in Canada
Chapter Fourteen: Canadian University Students and the Sex Trade
Part IV. Global
Chapter Fifteen: The Bartering of Female Sexuality Through the Ages
Chapter Sixteen: On a Street Corner Near You: Pimps as Practitioners of Torture
Chapter Seventeen: There is Not a Condom for This: The Clash between HIV/AIDS Prevention and Sex Trafficking Abolition
Chapter Eighteen: Collaboration and Conflict: Exploring the Intersections Between The Prostitution and Anti-Trafficking Communities
This two-volume set comprising 34 chapters written by scholars from a wide variety of countries shows the diversity of perspectives on the commercial sex industry. The editors have achieved something that is rare in scholarship - an interdisciplinary and intersectoral lens on prostitution and trafficking that challenges the myth that they are synonymous, yet at the same time shows their frequent intersection with economic marginalization, social exclusion and repressive legal frameworks that restrict human rights for some of the most vulnerable populations. The authors also engage insightfully with both theoretical and practical issues emerging from this key arena of gender politics and policy.
— Cecilia Benoit, University of Victoria, Canada
This two volume edition provides some intriguing insights into the sex industry in developed and developing countries. It is an interesting and informative collection of opinion pieces from around the world, some evidence-based and others informed by the philosophical position of the author. The contributions, therefore, provide a diversity of perspectives from those advocating the total abolition of sex work, to those arguing for decriminalization to minimize harm to sex workers and acknowledge the human rights of this population.
— Dr. Gillian Abel, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand