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  • Men Who Sell Sexby Peter Aggleton; Dennis Altman

    Taylor & Francis 1998; US$ 55.95

    Brings together an authoritative collection of essays from different countries and examines sexual behaviour, the reasons men sell sex, the meanings involved, and implications for HIV prevention. more...

  • Sex Work in Southeast Asiaby Lisa Law

    RoutledgeCurzon 2000; US$ 175.00

    This cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia posits a new place for a speaking sex worker subject. Provides vital up-to-date research for scholars in many disciplines. more...

  • Prostitutionby Paula Bartley

    Routledge 1999; US$ 40.95

    The first comprehensive overview of attempts to eradicate prostitution from English society, including discussion of early attempts at reform and prevention through to the campaigns of the social purists. more...

  • Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyanaby Linda Peake; D. Alissa Trotz

    Routledge 1999; US$ 124.95

    This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from a feminist perspective. more...

  • Rethinking Prostitutionby Graham Scambler; Annette Scambler

    Routledge 1996; US$ 65.00

    Contributors from a wide variety of researchers, activists and sex workers re-examine prostitution. Covers male and female sex workers; their status in law; drugs; health; changing nature of sex work ; pimps; the potential for redefining prostitution more...

  • Jewish White Slave Trade and the Untold Story of Raquel Liebermanby Nora Glickman

    Garland Science 2000; US$ 110.00

    This book recounts the life and career of Raquel Liberman, a Polish Jewish prostitute and victim of the white slave trade, which took women from Eastern Europe to Argentina from the late 1880 to the 1930s. more...

  • China, Sex and Prostitutionby Elaine Jeffreys

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 195.00

    China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China Studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. more...

  • The Book of the Courtesansby Susan Griffin

    Broadway Books 2002; US$ 11.99

    From Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin comes an unprecedented, provocative look at the dazzling world of the West’s first independent women, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom. While they charmed some of Europe’s most illustrious men honing their social skills as well as their sexual ones, the great courtesans gained riches, power, education, and sexual freedom in a time when other women were denied all of these. From Imperia of sixteenth-century Rome, who personified the Renaissance ideal of beauty; Mme. de Pompadour, the arbiter of all things fashionable in eighteenth-century Paris and Versailles; Liane de Pougy, known in France during the Belle Epoque as “Our National... more...

  • Woman's Relationship with Herselfby Helen O'Grady

    Routledge 2004; US$ 29.95

    Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady explores the relationship women have with themselves and explores the link between debilitating practices of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control. more...

  • The Politics of Sexual Morality in Irelandby Chrystel Hug; Jo Campling

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 1999; US$ 140.00

    The research for this book was prompted by a combination of events, in particular the election of Mary Robinson to the Presidency and the X Case which rocked Irish society. The book is an exploration of the dynamics between the courts, the legislators and the Irish citizens in relation to certain socio-sexual questions: divorce, contraception, abortion, and homosexuality. Spanning 73 years since the creation of the Irish State, The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland questions the nature of the moral order regulating Irish society and the concept of democracy underlying it. It examines the fragile balance struck between tradition and modernity. more...