Prostitution & Sex Trade

This book will look at the phenomenon of celebrity hookers in the eighteenth century -all of them the subject of extraordinary press scrutiny and comment. They were the fashion icons of the age, and what they wore was copied and put on sale in the high...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999355909Author David WienirFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint de Wallen PressPublisher de Wallen Press

Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First...

The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking. Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies...

Sex trafficking is currently a hot news topic, but it is not a new problem or just a problem in "other" countries. Every year, an estimated 300,000 American children are at risk of being lured into the sex trade, some as young as eight years old. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478944768Author Karley SciortinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Adapted into the Channel 4 documentary 'Sex: My British Job' by Nick Broomfield. Ming and Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties and both came...

By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639918Author Matilda BickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems*** On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316196Author Jared StearnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476793269Author Ethan BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

This volume explores the sex trade in America from 1850 to 1920 through the perspectives of archaeologists and historians, expanding the geographic and thematic scope of research on the subject. Historical Sex Work builds on the work of previous studies...

This book is a comprehensive and accessible overview of sex trafficking in the United States, examining its underlying dynamics and sharing key research findings. Andrea J. Nichols examines the backgrounds and experiences of survivors, traffickers, and...

First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in BelgiumIn 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the decriminalisation of sex work. This move positioned the small nation as the first country in Europe - and the...

Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general public draws its understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case...

Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the 'Comfort Women: The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military in Japan over the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429093286Author Billy StruveFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 109mm *...

This issue addresses how laborers within intimate industries-those who do interpersonal work that tends to the sexual, bodily, health, hygiene, or care needs of individuals-are shaping Asia's growing role in the global economy. The contributors...

The book is a compilation of five true stories of adults (4 woman & 1 man) trafficked as children. Each story is preceded by an overview of the type of trafficking the story addresses and followed up by a statement from the survivors themselves. The...

Sex Work in Russia weaves together a wide range of materials to examine the figure of the female sex worker in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present day. This book offers readers both an expansive and nuanced discussion of the...

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the anti-human trafficking movement have proliferated over the past few decades, each focusing on different aspects of the problem. Many of these NGOs have joined coalitions to pool resources and expertise. What...

Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in...

Sugar Girls and Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors.Dockside "sugar girls" work at one of the busiest cultural...

Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico's people, cities and towns...

Human trafficking is a thriving and growing business; by some estimates it is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal industry in the world. The first comprehensive study of the practice of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) was...

Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemporary equivalent of transatlantic slavery, and call on us to combat "modern slavery". Others hold that the...

America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093663Author Joseph McCabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

For Miranda, it all started as an eight-year old girl, struggling to come to terms with the trauma of discovering that her beloved 'mummy and daddy' were in fact her grandparents and her real mother was the woman she had always known as her elder sister...

For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that 'sex work' is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the...

Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613829Author Juniper FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The...

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544540337Author Julie WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Houndstooth PressPublisher Houndstooth PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954968387Author Jessica MidkiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Dreamsculpt Books and MediaPublisher Dreamsculpt Books and MediaWeight(grams)...

Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling Hooked, can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself. She has messed up badly and thrown everything away. Mentally, she is an...

Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research...

How technology transformed the nature of sex work The internet has revolutionized sex work perhaps more than any other profession. Today's sex workers go online to attract clients, shape personas, share information, screen potential clients, and build...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618725Author Rachel AimeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...