Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe
Once again, prostitution occupies a prominent position on public and political agendas, both nationally and internationally. A topic of concern and interest within social and academic realms, it is a highly moralized, contested issue that is at the center of heated and drawn-out debates.
With each chapter dedicated to a separate country and written by a national authority on the subject, Assessing European Prostitution Policies seeks to explore how prostitution is regulated in 21 European countries, thus drawing out important implications for an effective and humane prostitution policy. Indeed, this innovative volume brings together systematic accounts of how national and local forms of governance influence the commercial market for sex as well as the lives of sex workers and third parties. All chapters cover the history of prostitution policy, national laws regulating prostitution, policy formulation and implementation, the national discourse on prostitution, the gap between national and local regulation, the impact of policy on the lives and rights of sex workers, and sex worker advocacy organizations. In addition to this, the authors examine and highlight how immigration, labor, fiscal, and welfare law have as much impact on the sex trade as designated prostitution law.
A unique interdisciplinary title that is comprehensive in its coverage, Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, sex worker advocacy organizations and policy makers interested in fields such as Sexuality and Prostitution, Public Policy, Criminology, and Gender Studies.
Synnve kland Jahnsen is a postdoc at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre in Bergen, Norway.
Hendrik Wagenaar is Professor at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale is a new and exciting series emphasizing innovative work on the complexities of sex for sale, its practices, the policies designed to regulate it, and their effects. It covers both recent and historical developments with an aim to explore multidisciplinary and international perspectives, expand theoretical approaches, and analyze matters which are the subject of controversy and debate in this field.
We welcome submissions of single and co-authored books, as well as edited collections that address sex for sale, its practices, and regulation, including those with a focus on: comparative analysis; multi-scalar approaches; methodological perspectives; cultural and economic contexts; and the policies concerned with the regulation of sex for sale.
This series emerges from, and intends to expand the work of the European Concerted Research COST Action IS1209 Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance ( ProsPol ), a European network funded under Horizon 2020 (www.prospol.eu).
Isabel Crowhurst is Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex, UK, and coordinator (Chair) of ProsPol . Her research lies at the intersection of sociology, criminology, and critical social policy and centers on the regulation, social control, and lived experiences of commercial sex practices and of intimacy. She has researched and published on the regulation of commercial sex and of prostitution-related migrations of women in contemporary Europe. She has good editorial experience having co-edited four special issues of academic journals.
Rebecca Pates , Professor of Political Theory at Leipzig University, Germany, is (co-)director of a number of grants for research projects on the micro-political regulation of prostitution and trafficking funded by the EU and the German Research Council. These research projects combined grounded theory with discourse analysis. She works on theories of the state, political anthropology, and theories of policing. Besides publications on the regulation of sex work in Germany, she has edited a volume on the social construction of German ethnicities and is currently working on a monograph on Policing in East Germany.
May-Len Skilbrei is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo, NO, and Vice Chair of ProsPol . She works within the fields of criminology, gender studies, and sociology of law, and does research on the formulation and implementation of legislation and welfare policies on prostitution nationally and regionally (the Nordic region) as well as on womens narratives of human trafficking. She has published broadly on prostitution and trafficking internationally. She is also an experienced editor, with four edited special issues to her name.
Books:
1 Erotic Performance and Spectatorship
Katy Pilcher
2 Prostitution Research in Context
Methodology, Representation and Power
Edited by May-Len Skilbrei and Marlene Spanger
3 Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe
Edited by Synnve kland Jahnsen and Hendrik Wagenaar
Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe
Edited by
Synnve kland Jahnsen
and Hendrik Wagenaar
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Contents
HENDRIK WAGENAAR
ROSIE CAMPBELL, PHIL HUBBARD, TEELA SANDERS, AND JANE SCOULARA
PAUL RYAN AND EILS WARD
SIETSKE ALTINK, ILSE VAN LIEMPT, AND MARJAN WIJERS
MARION DAVID AND MAARTEN LOOPMANS
MATHILDE DARLEY, MARION DAVID, VRONIQUE GUIENNE, GWNALLE MAINSANT, AND LILIAN MATHIEU
INA HUNECKE
HELGA AMESBERGER, LUZENIR CAIXETA, ELISABETH GREIF, AND BIRGIT SAUER
MILENA CHIMIENTI AND GRALDINE BUGNON
JEANETT BJNNESS AND MARLENE SPANGER
PETRA STERGREN
SYNNVE KLAND JAHNSEN AND MAY-LEN SKILBREI
NIINA VUOLAJRVI, MINNA VIUHKO, ANNE-MARIA MARTTILA, AND JOHANNA KANTOLAA
IVANA RADAI
IZTOK ORI AND MOJCA PAJNIK
