ABSTRACT
The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research unites 45 contributions from researchers, sex workers, activists, and practitioners who live and work in 28 countries throughout the world.
Focusing tightly on the contemporary state of sex industry research through eight carefully selected themes, this volume sets a clear agenda for future research, activism, and policymaking. Approaching the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective on an expanding field frequently divided by political and ideological conflicts, the handbook clearly establishes the parameters of the field while also showcasing the most vibrant contemporary empirical and theoretical work.
Unprecedented in its global scope, the Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research will appeal to students, researchers, and policy makers interested in fields such as sociology of gender and sexuality; crime, justice, and the sex industry; sociology of work and professions; and sexual politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|76 pages
The research enterprise
chapter 4|9 pages
Selective vision
chapter 6|13 pages
First-person singular(s)
chapter 7|12 pages
“Sisters of the night” 1
chapter 8|10 pages
An action research project with sex worker peer educators in Lisbon, Portugal
part II|76 pages
Socio-legal practices
chapter 11|13 pages
Understanding prostitution policy
chapter 15|12 pages
“Bridge over troubled water”
part III|84 pages
Global knowledge flows
chapter 18|12 pages
Globally circulating discourses on the sex industry
chapter 19|13 pages
Sex trafficking as desaparición [disappearance]
chapter 21|8 pages
“Something about us for us”
chapter 22|12 pages
We need to talk about youth prostitution
chapter 24|13 pages
Re-assembling the feminist war machine
part IV|63 pages
Families and intimate relationships
chapter 27|10 pages
From clients to “friends” or “lovers”
chapter 28|11 pages
Money talks?
chapter 30|9 pages
Bridging tourism and prostitution through intimacy
part V|62 pages
Clients
part VI|62 pages
Third parties
chapter 38|12 pages
Multiplicity and demonic alliances
chapter 40|13 pages
Protection through repression?
chapter 41|12 pages
Sex trading in neighbourhood context
chapter 42|6 pages
Supporting female survivors of sex trafficking in Russia
part VII|78 pages
Cultural representations
chapter 49|11 pages
Public encounters with whorephobia
chapter 50|11 pages
Two women, two murders
part VIII|71 pages
Technologies
