Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

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Produktbeschreibung

Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious "sin cities" around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore and from Casablanca to Chicago. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication. Contributors are: Pascale Absi, Dlila Amir, Deborah Bernstein, Francesca Biancani, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Amalia L. Cabezas, Susan P. Conner, Satarupa Dasgupta, Mfon Umoren Ekpootu, Raelene Frances, Pamela Fuentes, Sue Gronewold, Hanan Hammad, Shawna Herzog, Philippa Hetherington, Nicole Keusch, Liat Kozma, Julia Laite, Nomi Levenkron, Mary Linehan, Maja Mechant, Fernanda Nuñez, Marion Pluskota, Cristiana Schettini, Hila Shamir, Yvonne Svanström, Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, Michela Turno, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, and Mark David Wyers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 1419g
• ISBN-13: 9789004346246
• ISBN-10: 9004346244
• Artikelnr.: 48507840

Autorenporträt

Magaly Rodríguez García, Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer of contemporary history at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She has published on the International Labour Organization, the League of Nations' campaigns against trafficking and child labour, the history and definitions of prostitution and coerced labour. Lex Heerma van Voss, is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW) and professor in the History of Social Security at Utrecht University. He has published on the international comparative history of work. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Ph.D. (2007), is a global labour and gender historian, working as Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on women's and children's work, and participated in several projects comparing the history of workers worldwide.