Global perspectives on prostitution and sex trafficking / edited by Rochelle L. Dalla [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dalla, Rochelle L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution.

Human trafficking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2011.

Summary:

This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven geo-cultural areas of the world. Each of the chapters provides a distinct perspective from which to contemplate the global commercial sex industry as well as a spectrum of implications for continued scholarship and research, legislative maneuvers and policy change, and suggestions for collaboration across NGOs, clinicians, and service providers.

Contents:

Cover ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; Part One: Africa; 1. Perspectives of Women Sex Workers about Street-Level Prostitution in Botswana ; 2. Adolescents' Prostitution and the Educational Prospects of the Girl-Child in Nigeria; 3. Tourism and Prostitution in West Africa: A Glimpse of the ""Roamers"" in Ghana; 4. Child Sexual Exploitation in Kenya; Part Two: Asia; 5. Prostitution in India: A Global Problem; 6. Galtung's Unified Theory of Violence and its Implications for Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Sex Workers in West Bengal India

7. Desiring Motherhood, Selling Sex: Women in Kolkata's Commercial Sex Trade8. Urbanization, Gender, Rights, and HIV/AIDS Risk: The Case of Female Commercial Sex Workers in China; 9. Well and Truly Fucked: Transwomen, Stigma, Sex Work, and Sexual Health in South to East Asia; 10. Prostitution in Indonesia; Part Three: Middle East; 11. Jewish Sources and Trafficking in Women; 12. Unveiling Prostitution and Human Trafficking in Israel; 13. Immigration, Women, and Prostitution: The Case of Women from the Former Soviet Union in Israel

14. Prostitution in Morocco: Implications for Research DirectionsPart Four: Oceania ; 15. Oscillations in the Regulation of the Sex Industry in New South Wales, Australia: Disorderly or Pragmatic?; 16. Reworking Sex: Prostitution in the Pacific and the Position for Law Reform; Index; About the Authors; About the Editors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-20730-6

0-7391-8447-4

0-7391-3277-6

OCLC:

855503227