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Regulating sex/work : from crime control to neo-liberalism?

Title

Regulating sex/work : from crime control to neo-liberalism? / edited by Jane Scoular and Teela Sanders.

Format

Book

Published

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Description

232 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Other contributors

Scoular, Jane. Sanders, Teela.

Other titles

Journal of law and society. v. 37, no. 1, Mar. 2010.

Series

Journal of law and society ; 37,1

Notes

"Journal of law and society, volume 37, number 1, March 2010, ISSN: 0263-323X"--P. 1. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : the changing social and legal context of sexual commerce : why regulation matters / Jane Scoular and Teela Sanders
What's law got to do with it? How and why law matters in the regulation of sex work / Jane Scoular
Mainstreaming the sex industry : economic inclusion and social ambivalence / Barbara G. Brents and Teela Sanders
The movement to criminalise sex work in the United States / Ronald Weitzer
When (some) prostitution is legal : the impact of law reform on sex work in Australia / Barbara Sullivan
Labours in vice or virtue? Neo-liberalism, sexual commerce, and the case of Indian bar dancing / Prabha Kotiswaran
Male sex work : exploring regulation in England and Wales / Mary Whowell
Bellwether citizens : the regulation of male clients of sex workers / Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Extreme concern : regulating 'dangerous pictures' in the United Kingdom / Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith
Consuming sex : socio-legal shifts in the space and place of sex shops / Baptiste Coulmont and Phil Hubbard
Cultural criminology and sex work : resisting regulation through radical democracy and participatory action research (PAR) / Maggie O'Neill.

Subject headings

Prostitution.

ISBN

9781444333626 (pbk.) 1444333623 (pbk.)