Sex work : labour, mobility and sexual services / JaneMaree Maher, Sharon Pickering and Alison Gerard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, JaneMaree, author.

Contributor:

Gerard, Alison.

Pickering, Sharon, 1972-

Series:

Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Routledge studies in crime and society ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active regulation. Globalisation has increased women's mobility between developing and developed countries at the same time as women's employment opportunities in the developed world are shifting. Family and intimate relationships are being transformed by changing demographics, shifting social mores and new intersections between intimate lives and global markets. Sex work is located at the nexus of new intimacies, shif

Contents:

Introduction : the new intimacies and mobilities of sex work: who does it, where and why?

Women's work conditions and sexual services

In the room and beyond : keeping it nice with the clients

"Giving my body a break" : health, well-being and staying safe

Regulating sex work : the noise and confusion of sexual regulation

Sexual services in the global world

Conclusion

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-23412-8

1-283-70996-1

0-203-10120-0

1-136-23413-6

9780203101209

OCLC:

817888428