Sex Work Now (Paperback)

Prostitution has risen up the social and political agenda and has recently been the subject of considerable media attention, research, policy formulation and implementation, in particular in the Sex Offences Act 2003. This book aims to provide an overview of prostitution today, approaching the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective and cutting across the conventional boundaries of sociology, criminology, politics and social policy. One of its aims is to develop some of the central themes set out in Eileen McLeod's pioneering book Working Women: prostitution now, taking full account of contemporary developments and context but retaining a focus on the lives and experience of prostitutes. The result is a multi-layered picture of the situation of prostitutes today and the prospects they face, taking account of the variety of projects and practices in different parts of the country, and the broader national policy context. Chapters in the book address the relationship between prostitutes and the communities in which they love and work, sex worker rights and unionisation, zoning prostitution, violence against sex workers, migrant sex work and trafficking, young people and prostit

General

Imprint:	Willan Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Rosie Campbell • Maggie O'Neill
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-84392-096-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Promotions
LSN:	1-84392-096-4
Barcode:	9781843920960

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