Prostitutes and Their Rescuers : : Sociological Dynamics and Public Controversies in French Prostitution / / by Lilian Mathieu ; with a foreword by Phil Hubbard.
"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 r...
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| Superior document: | Youth in a Globalizing World Series ; Volume 20 |
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| 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). |
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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.