Selling sex in the city a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s
'Selling Sex in the City' offers a global analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach, covering 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2017, [2017]
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| Series: | Studies in global social history
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 'Selling Sex in the City' offers a global analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach, covering 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. In this way, 'Selling Sex in the City' reveals how the practice of prostitution and societal reactions to it have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communications |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 891 pages |
| ISBN: | 9004346244 9789004346246 |