Regulating Sex / Work
From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism?
1st Edition
Published on 12. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4443-3362-6 (ISBN)
Description
Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation
Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India
Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry
Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India
Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-3362-6 (9781444333626)
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Persons
Jane Scoular is Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. Teela Sanders is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.
Content
1. Introduction: The Changing Social and Legal Context of Sexual Commerce: Why Regulation Matters (Jane Scoular and Teela Sanders). 2. What's Law Got To Do With It? How and Why Law Matters in the Regulation of Sex Work (Jane Scoular).
3. Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence (Barbara G. Brents and Teela Sanders).
4. The Movement to Criminalise Sex Work in the United States (Ronald Weitzer).
5. When (Some) Prostitution is Legal: The Impact of Law Reform on Sex Work in Australia (Barbara Sullivan).
6. Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce, and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing (Prabha Kotiswaran).
7. Male Sex Work: Exploring Regulation in England and Wales (Mary Whowell).
8. Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers (Belinda Brooks-Gordon).
9. Extreme Concern: Regulating `Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom (Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith).
10. Consuming Sex: Socio-legal Shifts in the Space and Place of Sex Shops (Baptiste Coulmont and Phil Hubbard).
11. Cultural Criminology and Sex Work: Resisting Regulation through Radical Democracy and Participatory Action Research (PAR) (Maggie O'Neill).
3. Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence (Barbara G. Brents and Teela Sanders).
4. The Movement to Criminalise Sex Work in the United States (Ronald Weitzer).
5. When (Some) Prostitution is Legal: The Impact of Law Reform on Sex Work in Australia (Barbara Sullivan).
6. Labours in Vice or Virtue? Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce, and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing (Prabha Kotiswaran).
7. Male Sex Work: Exploring Regulation in England and Wales (Mary Whowell).
8. Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers (Belinda Brooks-Gordon).
9. Extreme Concern: Regulating `Dangerous Pictures' in the United Kingdom (Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith).
10. Consuming Sex: Socio-legal Shifts in the Space and Place of Sex Shops (Baptiste Coulmont and Phil Hubbard).
11. Cultural Criminology and Sex Work: Resisting Regulation through Radical Democracy and Participatory Action Research (PAR) (Maggie O'Neill).