Prostitutes and Their Rescuers : : Sociological Dynamics and Public Controversies in French Prostitution / / by Lilian Mathieu ; with a foreword by Phil Hubbard.

• Superior document: Youth in a Globalizing World Series ; Volume 20
• VerfasserIn: Mathieu, Lilian,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hubbard, Phil,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Youth in a globalizing world ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 178 pages).

"Few sociological subjects excite so much passion - and fantasies - as prostitution. Relying on a thirty year-long study of the French case, Lilian Mathieu offers an objective and comprehensive account of prostitution realities, first by analyzing the sex market as a social world with its own rules, hierarchies, and vulnerabilities, but also by stressing how prostitutes' practice and living conditions are framed and shaped by moral campaigns, public controversies, and state policies. By doing so, the book offers a new understanding of how the "deviant" and "normal" worlds interact and transform sexual norms"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Foreword / by Phil Hubbard -- Introduction : prostitutes and their rescuers, avatars of an interdependence -- The prostitution space -- Violence in the prostitution world -- Prostitution, a zone of social vulnerability -- French prostitution policies : genesis and methods -- Ordinary devils : constructing the public problem of prostitutes' clients -- The procurer, the moving target of prostitution policies -- Trafficking in human beings, from urban legend to public policy -- Conclusion : towards an international comparison of perverse effects.