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Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00Examines human smuggling and trafficking into the U.S. from around the world and the implications it has for national security, criminal activity, and our economy. more...
Lydias Open Door
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton 2004; US$ 15.95Examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas' capital city. By delving into lives that would otherwise go unremarked, this book documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. more...
The Idea of Prostitution
Spinifex Press 1997; US$ 16.95There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: Prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women and Men?s use of prostitution as a form of degrading the women and causing grave psychological damage. In The Idea of Prostitution Sheila Jeffreys explores these sharply contrasting views. She examines... more...
Making Sex Work
Spinifex Press 2007; US$ 16.95Backing up theory and critical literature with hard evidence, this book refutes the idea that legalization of prostitution can be anything but a harmful contributor to the commodification of women. It explores the fallacy of the "cottage industry," the role of financial institutions in supporting prostitution, the myth of exit programs, the conflation... more...
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 23.00One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B. Freedman teaches and writes about women's history with a passion informed by her feminist values. Over the past thirty years, she has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually exclusive. This collection brings together eleven... more...
Sex Work
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to advance a greater knowledge of the social organisation of the sex industry by uncovering the day-to-day activities of women involved in the indoor markets. What types of occupational... more...
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys
Soft Skull Press 2009; US$ 15.95The only thing the writers in this book have in common is that they've exchanged sex for money. They're PhDs and dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, $2,500-a-night call girls and $10 crack hos, and everything in between. This anthology lends a voice to an underrepresented population that is simultaneously reviled and worshipped. Hos, Hookers, Call... more...
Sex Work Matters
Zed Books 2010; US$ 34.95Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers... more...
The Economics of Prostitution
Charles C Thomas 1985; US$ 42.95By Helen Reynolds, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. CONTENTS: Introduction; Market Incentives for Prostitutes; Pimps; How Public Policy Affects Prostitution Markets; San Francisco; Steady, Indoor Work: The Legalized Brothels of Nevada; Boston's Combat Zone; The Control of Prostitution in Dallas; Some Conclusions About Prostitution. more...
Prostitution
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 40.95Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 is 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. Prostitution looks in depth at the various reform institutions which were set up... more...









