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The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429467608, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. While the Nordic countries are listed at
the top in most international rankings of gender equality and
citizens' feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual
victimisation present a different picture, suggesting that the very
countries that have invested much in establishing gender equality
actually see a high prevalence of sexual violence. This book sheds
light on the phenomenon and construction of rape and other forms of
sexual violence within the Nordic region, exploring the ways in
which rape and sexual violence are dealt with through criminal law
and considering governmental policies aimed at combatting it, with
a special focus on legal regulations and developments. Thematically
organised, it offers new research on perpetrators, victimhood,
criminal justice and prevention. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it
brings together the latest work from a range of scholars to offer
insights into the situation in the five Nordic countries, asking
how and why rape and other forms of sexual violence occur, whilst
also addressing the timely issues of online sexual cultures, BDSM
and the grey areas of sexual offences. As such, it will appeal to
scholars of sociology, criminology and law with interests in gender
and sexual violence.
The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be
misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial,
temporal and political context. Understanding Sex for Sale aims to
understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are
delineated, contested and understood in different spaces, places
and times; with a particular focus on identifying how the relation
between sex and money is interpreted and enacted. Divided into
three parts, this interdisciplinary volume offers contributions
that discuss ongoing theoretical issues and analytical challenges.
Some chapters focus on how prostitution, sex work, or sex for sale
have been regulated by the authorities and on the understandings
that regulations are built upon. Other chapters investigate the
experiences of sex workers and sex buyers, examining how these
actors adjust to or resist the categorisation processes, control
and stigma they are subjected to. Finally, a third group of
chapters discuss contemporary definitional issues produced by
various actors tasked with controlling prostitution or offering
social services to its participants. Advancing and placing
analytical tools at the forefront of the discussion, Understanding
Sex for Sale appeals to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as
well as researchers interested in fields such as, sociology,
anthropology, criminology, history, human geography and gender
studies.
The starting point for this book is the question of how we research
sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms
of epistemology and ethics. Which dilemmas and ethical aspects need
to be taken into account when producing qualitative data within a
highly politicised and moral-infected realm? These two questions
are exactly what Spanger and Skilbrei aim to unpack in this unusual
interdisciplinary methodology book, Prostitution Research in
Context. The book offers contributions from a number of scholars
who, based on their reflections on their own research practice and
the existing knowledge field, discuss ongoing methodological issues
and challenges representative of international research on sex for
sale. Some chapters deal explicitly with methodological dilemmas in
research; others thematise the encounter between prostitution
research and general texts on epistemology. Other chapters again
actively engage with the ethical dilemmas that research on the
topic of sex for sale can entail. The authors represent different
disciplines, but share an interest in engaging in reflexive
research practices informed by feminism and feminist
epistemologies. An authoritative contribution to the field, this
innovative volume will appeal to international scholars and
students from across the social sciences and humanities in areas
such as sociology, anthropology, criminology, media studies,
feminist studies, human geography and history.
There is great interest internationally in the development of
prostitution policies in the Nordic countries after Sweden, Norway
and Iceland have introduced general bans against buying sex whilst
selling sex remains legal. In addition, there is a partial ban
against buying sex in Finland. This is a different approach from
that of several other European countries, where we have seen a
decriminalisation of third-party involvement in prostitution as
well as to that of the USA which criminalises both the buying and
selling of sexual services. Thus the Nordic countries are often
treated as representatives of a 'Nordic model' of prostitution
policies. In this book - the first on the subject - Skilbrei and
HolmstrAm argue that these models of policies or policy regimes
tend to ignore the trajectories, contexts and consequences of the
full range of approaches to prostitution, thus they are too
simplistic and static. Prostitution policies in the Nordic
countries are multifaceted and dynamic, and cannot be represented
as following a straight path and detached from empirical contexts.
Their analysis treats Nordic prostitution policies both as a
product of history, of current national and Nordic debates, and of
international obligations and changes in the international and
national prostitution markets. Furthermore they argue that a broad
understanding of the relevant context is necessary so as to place
Nordic prostitution policies within broader policy concerns related
to gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, social welfare, immigration
and organised crime, as well as to neoliberal forms of governance.
There is great interest internationally in the development of
prostitution policies in the Nordic countries after Sweden, Norway
and Iceland have introduced general bans against buying sex whilst
selling sex remains legal. In addition, there is a partial ban
against buying sex in Finland. This is a different approach from
that of several other European countries, where we have seen a
decriminalisation of third-party involvement in prostitution as
well as to that of the USA which criminalises both the buying and
selling of sexual services. Thus the Nordic countries are often
treated as representatives of a 'Nordic model' of prostitution
policies. In this book - the first on the subject - Skilbrei and
HolmstrAm argue that these models of policies or policy regimes
tend to ignore the trajectories, contexts and consequences of the
full range of approaches to prostitution, thus they are too
simplistic and static. Prostitution policies in the Nordic
countries are multifaceted and dynamic, and cannot be represented
as following a straight path and detached from empirical contexts.
Their analysis treats Nordic prostitution policies both as a
product of history, of current national and Nordic debates, and of
international obligations and changes in the international and
national prostitution markets. Furthermore they argue that a broad
understanding of the relevant context is necessary so as to place
Nordic prostitution policies within broader policy concerns related
to gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, social welfare, immigration
and organised crime, as well as to neoliberal forms of governance.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429467608, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. While the Nordic countries are listed at
the top in most international rankings of gender equality and
citizens' feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual
victimisation present a different picture, suggesting that the very
countries that have invested much in establishing gender equality
actually see a high prevalence of sexual violence. This book sheds
light on the phenomenon and construction of rape and other forms of
sexual violence within the Nordic region, exploring the ways in
which rape and sexual violence are dealt with through criminal law
and considering governmental policies aimed at combatting it, with
a special focus on legal regulations and developments. Thematically
organised, it offers new research on perpetrators, victimhood,
criminal justice and prevention. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it
brings together the latest work from a range of scholars to offer
insights into the situation in the five Nordic countries, asking
how and why rape and other forms of sexual violence occur, whilst
also addressing the timely issues of online sexual cultures, BDSM
and the grey areas of sexual offences. As such, it will appeal to
scholars of sociology, criminology and law with interests in gender
and sexual violence.
The starting point for this book is the question of how we research
sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms
of epistemology and ethics. Which dilemmas and ethical aspects need
to be taken into account when producing qualitative data within a
highly politicised and moral-infected realm? These two questions
are exactly what Spanger and Skilbrei aim to unpack in this unusual
interdisciplinary methodology book, Prostitution Research in
Context. The book offers contributions from a number of scholars
who, based on their reflections on their own research practice and
the existing knowledge field, discuss ongoing methodological issues
and challenges representative of international research on sex for
sale. Some chapters deal explicitly with methodological dilemmas in
research; others thematise the encounter between prostitution
research and general texts on epistemology. Other chapters again
actively engage with the ethical dilemmas that research on the
topic of sex for sale can entail. The authors represent different
disciplines, but share an interest in engaging in reflexive
research practices informed by feminism and feminist
epistemologies. An authoritative contribution to the field, this
innovative volume will appeal to international scholars and
students from across the social sciences and humanities in areas
such as sociology, anthropology, criminology, media studies,
feminist studies, human geography and history.
Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the
production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with
contributions from four continents and different disciplines that
taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by
differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class
and race. Stigma is about relationships between people and also
sets an interpretative frame whereby people understand and react to
situations and actions, and the book is developed and organized to
investigate this from various angles. It presents empirical studies
that build on and expand the scholarship on stigma and sex work.
This means that it contributes to a more complex understanding of
stigma in sex work studies. Further, by using the example of sew
work to explore how we can best understand the production and
consequences of stigma, the book makes a contribution that is
relevant for all scholars who work on stigma and stigmatization.
The book is intended for academic audiences interested in sex work
or prostitution, on the one hand, and stigmatization, on the other.
It is also intended for students in a broad range of disciplines,
as well as for practitioners and activists who encounter or work
with stigmatization or stigmatized populations.
The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be
misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial,
temporal and political context. Understanding Sex for Sale aims to
understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are
delineated, contested and understood in different spaces, places
and times; with a particular focus on identifying how the relation
between sex and money is interpreted and enacted. Divided into
three parts, this interdisciplinary volume offers contributions
that discuss ongoing theoretical issues and analytical challenges.
Some chapters focus on how prostitution, sex work, or sex for sale
have been regulated by the authorities and on the understandings
that regulations are built upon. Other chapters investigate the
experiences of sex workers and sex buyers, examining how these
actors adjust to or resist the categorisation processes, control
and stigma they are subjected to. Finally, a third group of
chapters discuss contemporary definitional issues produced by
various actors tasked with controlling prostitution or offering
social services to its participants. Advancing and placing
analytical tools at the forefront of the discussion, Understanding
Sex for Sale appeals to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as
well as researchers interested in fields such as, sociology,
anthropology, criminology, history, human geography and gender
studies.
The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic
changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped
what it means to be a European citizen. Drawing on a range of
interdisciplinary research, this book uses the discourses around
current European sexual politics as an entry point to interrogate
how, and with what effect, the EU and its Member States harness
issues of gender and sexuality to support issues of higher
political importance. It takes recent and ongoing political debates
and legislative changes around prostitution and sexual assault as a
focus. Using four national case studies: Poland, Germany, Sweden
and Italy it illuminates how the EU's desire for increased
harmonisation across the Union around gender and sexuality norms
and values operates differently and with specific effects across
Member States. The book's structure provides a detailed map of how
and why contemporary European sexual politics is changing, and how
this contributes to establishing European norms and values in
developments in law and policy around prostitution and sexual
assault. By examining how and why the EU and its Member States
implement their policies in these two policy areas we can begin to
illuminate how contemporary European sexual politics serve some
groups' interests while marginalizing 'Others'.
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