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Prostitution and Human Trafficking
Springer 2008; US$ 84.99Who is the client of trafficked prostitution? What fuels the demand for trafficked prostitution as opposed to other forms? Which are the effective policies for what type of prostitution? This book provides research that answers these questions. It explores the hidden world of human trafficking for prostitution and intends to profile its clients. more...
The Social World of Older People
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 172.00Provides an account of loneliness and social isolation as experienced by older people living in Britain. This book considers the incidence and effects of isolation and loneliness, identifying the factors which lead to such experiences and considering potential interventions. more...
Economies of Desire
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 26.95Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing... more...
Red Lights
University of Minnesota Press 2009; US$ 68.00In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostessesa career whose name disguises the... more...
Prostitution in Medieval Society
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00"Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of sexuality." – Catharine R. Stimpson more...
The Comforts of Home
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00"This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."—Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies "White's book . . . takes a unique approach... more...
Pleasures and Perils
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 25.95Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality?s contradictions are exposed:... more...
Sex For Sale
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. Sex for Sale covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male and female escorts who work independently, street... more...
Safer Sex in the City
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Thoroughout history prostitution has always been present and has usually been a source of fierce debate. Societies have either grudgingly tolerated it or tried (always unsuccessfully) to ban it. But with the emergence of much more overt acceptance of all forms of sexual activity it has become more apparent that sex workers who ply their trade on the... more...
Sex in Cyberspace
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95Sex in Cyberspace offers a bold and provocative, yet sensitively written, account of an under-investigated area of sociological enquiry. It is the first empirically-based study on the experiences of men who pay for sex and presents information which is otherwise extremely difficult to obtain. Shedding new light on men's sexual identity, Sex in... more...









