Selling sex in the city : : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s / / edited by Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Lex Heerma van Voss, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.

• TeilnehmendeR: Rodriguez Garcia, Magaly, 1973-; Heerma van Voss, Lex.; Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Social History 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (909 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction /; Urban Overviews --; Europe --; Selling Sex in Amsterdam /; Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges /; Sex for Sale in Florence /; A Global History of Prostitution: London /; Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia /; The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris /; Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change /; Africa and the Middle East --; Prostitution in Cairo /; Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca /; Selling Sex in Istanbul /; Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective /; Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 /; The Americas --; A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires /; Prostitution in the us: Chicago /; Prostitution in Havana /; Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 /; The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries /; Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation /; Section 4Asia-Pacific --; Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present /; Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) /; Prostitution in Shanghai /; Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt /; Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 /; Thematic Overviews --; “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 /; Working and Living Conditions /; Migration and Prostitution1 /; Prostitution and Colonial Relations /; Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work /; Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work /; A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work /; The Social Profiles of Prostitutes /; Conclusion --; Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004346252
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Lex Heerma van Voss, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk.

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.