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.

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.

Table of Contents

Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction / Magaly Rodríguez García , Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss -- Urban Overviews -- Europe -- Selling Sex in Amsterdam / Marion Pluskota -- Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges / Maja Mechant -- Sex for Sale in Florence / Michela Turno -- A Global History of Prostitution: London / Julia Laite -- Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia / Philippa Hetherington -- The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris / Susan P. Conner -- Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change / Yvonne Svanström -- Africa and the Middle East -- Prostitution in Cairo / Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani -- Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca / Liat Kozma -- Selling Sex in Istanbul / Mark David Wyers -- Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective / Mfon Umoren Ekpootu -- Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 / Deborah Bernstein , Hila Shamir , Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir -- The Americas -- A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires / Cristiana Schettini -- Prostitution in the us: Chicago / Mary Linehan -- Prostitution in Havana / Amalia L. Cabezas -- Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 / Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes -- The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries / Pascale Absi -- Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation / Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini -- Section 4Asia-Pacific -- Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present / Satarupa Dasgupta -- Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) / Isabelle Tracol-Huynh -- Prostitution in Shanghai / Sue Gronewold -- Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt / Shawna Herzog -- Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 / Raelene Frances -- Thematic Overviews -- “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 / Marion Pluskota -- Working and Living Conditions / Raelene Frances -- Migration and Prostitution1 / Nicole Keusch -- Prostitution and Colonial Relations / Liat Kozma -- Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette -- Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work / Mark David Wyers -- A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -- The Social Profiles of Prostitutes / Maja Mechant -- Conclusion -- Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk , Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss.