The politics of prostitution
Subtitle: women's movements, democratic states, and the globalisation of sex commerce
By: edited by Joyce Outshoorn.
Contributors: Outshoorn, Joyce.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780521833196; 9780521540698
Subjects: Prostitution -- Government policy; Prostitution -- Political aspects; Feminism; Women's rights; Prostitutes -- Legal status, laws, etc; Prostitutes -- Civil rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : prostitution, women's movements and democratic politics / Joyce Outshoorn; title: The women's movement and prostitution politics in Australia / Barbara Sullivan; title: Taxes, rights and regimentation : discourses on prostitution in Austria / Birgit Sauer; title: Prostitution policies in Britain, 1982-2002 / Johanna Kantola and Judith Squires; title: Prostitution as public nuisance : prostitution policy in Canada / Leslie Ann Jeffrey; title: Towards a new prohibitionism? State feminism, women's movements and prostitution policies in Finland / Anne Maria Holli; title: Prostitute movmements face elite apathy and gender-biased universalism in France / Amy G. Mazur; title: The politics of prostitution and trafficking of women in Israel / Delila Amir and Mencahem Amir; title: Italy : the never-ending debate / Daniela Danna; title: Voluntary and forced prostitution : the 'realistic approach' of the Netherlands / Joyce Outshoorn; title: State feminism and central state debates on prostitution in post-authoritarian Spain / Celia Valiente; title: Criminalising the john - a Swedish gender model? / Yvonne Svanström; title: The invisible issue : prostitution and trafficking of women and girls in the United States / Dorothy McBride Stetson; title: Comparative prostitution politics and the case for state feminism / Joyce Outshoorn.