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 ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in global social history ;
v. 31. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | 1 online resource (xvii, 891 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004346253 9004346252 |
| ISSN: | 1874-6705 ; |