TY - BOOK
T1 - Selling Sex in the City
T2 - A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
A2 - Rodriguez Garcia, Magaly
A2 - Heerma van Voss, L.
A2 - van Nederveen Meerkerk, E.J.V.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers 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. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication.
AB - Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers 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. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004346253
DO - 10.1163/9789004346253
M3 - Book editing
SN - 9789004346246
T3 - Studies in Global Social History
BT - Selling Sex in the City
PB - Brill
ER -
