| Description |
xviii, 222 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword: Understanding prostitution / Graham Scambler and Annette Scambler -- 1. Prostitute women now / Maggie O'Neill -- 2. Prostitute men now / Peter Davies and Rayah Feldman -- 3. The legal regulation of prostitution: a human rights issue / Susan Edwards -- 4. Campaigning for legal change: English Collective of Prostitutes -- 5. Conspicuous and inconspicuous sex work: the neglect of the ordinary and mundane / Graham Scambler -- 6. Boyfriends, 'pimps' and clients / Jean Faugier and Mary Sargeant -- 7. Health care and regulation: new perspectives / Helen Ward and Sophie Day -- 8. Alcohol, drugs and social milieu / Martin Plant -- Afterword: Rethinking prostitution / Graham Scambler and Annette Scambler |
| Summary |
By drawing on the expertise of researchers across all aspects of the industry, this up-to-date text focuses on an institution and industry ripe for re-assessment. Rethinking Prostitution will be of considerable interest to students, lecturers and researchers in medical sociology and women's studies, social workers in training and practice as well as the general reader as an area of topical interest and concern |
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The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other groups in relation to the need to scrutinize the social, moral and legal status of prostitution and to reflect on the arguments in support of or against legalising brothels, paying particular concern to prostitutes' own health. Rethinking Prostitution covers male as well as female sex workers and considers in detail their status in law; drugs; issues of health and health care; the changing nature of sex work; partners, boyfriends and pimps; and the potential for redefining prostitution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-211) and index |
| Subject |
Prostitutes -- Social conditions.
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Prostitution.
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Sex-oriented businesses.
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| Author |
Scambler, Annette, 1945-
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Scambler, Graham.
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| LC no. |
96021382 |
| ISBN |
0415102073 (paperback) |
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0415122260 (hbk.) |
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