Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s by Rodríguez García, Magaly

Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004346246)

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Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s by Rodríguez García, Magaly

Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

$218.00
Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s by Rodríguez García, Magaly

Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

$218.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Contributors are: Pascale Absi, Dlila Amir, Deborah Bernstein, Francesca Biancani, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Amalia L. Cabezas, Susan P. Conner, Satarupa Dasgupta, Mfon Umoren Ekpootu, Raelene Frances, Pamela Fuentes, Sue Gronewold, Hanan Hammad, Shawna Herzog, Philippa Hetherington, Nicole Keusch, Liat Kozma, Julia Laite, Nomi Levenkron, Mary Linehan, Maja Mechant, Fernanda Nuñez, Marion Pluskota, Cristiana Schettini, Hila Shamir, Yvonne Svanström, Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, Michela Turno, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, and Mark David Wyers.


Author: Magaly Rodríguez García
ISBN-10: 9004346244
ISBN-13: 9789004346246
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2017
Pages: 894
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.09lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 2.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2018
By Magaly Rodríguez García
By Magaly Rodríguez García
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Magaly Rodríguez García, Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer of contemporary history at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She has published on the International Labour Organization, the League of Nations' campaigns against trafficking and child labour, the history and definitions of prostitution and coerced labour.

Lex Heerma van Voss, is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW) and professor in the History of Social Security at Utrecht University. He has published on the international comparative history of work.

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Ph.D. (2007), is a global labour and gender historian, working as Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on women's and children's work, and participated in several projects comparing the history of workers worldwide.

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