Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 484 g
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 484 g
ISBN: 978-1-84392-096-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sex Work Now provides an authoritative overview of female sex work and policy in the UK, and addresses a number of key contemporary issues and debates. These include sex worker unionization, migrant sex work and trafficking, communities and sex work, male clients of sex workers, the policing of prostitution, zoning of street sex work, young people and sexual exploitation, drug use and sex work, exiting, violence and sex work. Throughout the book is shaped by the lives and experiences of sex workers themselves drawing on applied, policy or participatory action research. This book approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, cutting across conventional boundaries of sociology, criminology, politics and social policy. Contributors to the book include academics, researchers, practitioners and activists who are among the leading commentators on prostitution in the UK. provides overview of sex work in UK considers impact of recent legislation and policy, especially Sex Offences Act 2003 focus on lives and experiences of sex workers themselves
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Introduction, Rosie Campbell, Maggie O'Neill; Chapter 1 Out of touch and out of time? The contemporary policing of sex work, PhilHubbard; Chapter 2 Street sex work and local communities: creating discursive spaces for genuine consultation and inclusion, MaggieO'Neill, RosieCampbell; Chapter 3 ‘Zoning’ street sex work: the way forward?, MariekeVan Doorninck, RosieCampbell; Chapter 4 Behind the personal ads: the indoor sex markets in Britain, TeelaSanders; Chapter 5 The conundrum of women's agency: migrations and the sex industry, Laura MaríaAgustín; Chapter 6 Murder made easy: the final solution to prostitution?, HilaryKinnell; Chapter 7 Sex work and problem drug use in the UK: the links, problems and possible solutions, TiggeyMay, GillianHunter; Chapter 8 Finding the ‘I’ in sexual exploitation: young people's voices within policy and practice, J.J.Pearce; Chapter 9 Clients of female sex workers: men or monsters?, HilaryKinnell; Chapter 10 Support services for women working in the sex industry, JanePitcher; Chapter 11 Sex workers in the Labour Movement, AnaLopes Index;
