Regulating Sex / Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444333623 ISBN 13: 9781444333626

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? addresses the rise in sexual commerce and consumption by challenging traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation

• Examines different forms of sex regulation by utilizing examples from a range of sex markets in the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India
• Theorizes the apparent paradox that the increase in punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry is fueling a rise in supply, demand, and diversification of the sex industry

About this title

About the Author

Jane Scoular is Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.

Teela Sanders is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.

From the Back Cover

Recent years have borne witness to an unprecedented rise in - and an increased visibility of - sexual commerce and consumption, with a corresponding growth in associated forms of regulation. Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism? works on addressing these trends by challenging the traditional responses and offering a fresh approach to sex industry regulation. By documenting changes in regulations relating to a range of sex markets from the UK, France, USA, Australia, and India, this volume reveals an apparent paradox: that the increase in oppressive and punitive approaches to regulating the sex industry comes at a time when evidence suggests that the supply and demand that fuels the sex markets, the diversification of sex markets, and their embedded nature in socioeconomic infrastructures is more intense than ever.

Each chapter in this book addresses contemporary empirical examples of the regulation of the sex industry in a specific country and reveals theoretical connections between the implications of regulation and sexuality, gender and control. While many common themes run throughout the collection, consideration of the wide diversity of sex markets challenges traditional academic concentration on narrow forms of prostitution and allows for a more complex portrait of sex industry regulation to emerge.

Each chapter in this book addresses contemporary empirical examples of the regulation of the sex industry in a specific country and reveals theoretical connections between the implications of regulation and sexuality, gender and control. While many common themes run throughout the collection, consideration of the wide diversity of sex markets challenges traditional academic concentration on narrow forms of prostitution and allows for a more complex portrait of sex industry regulation to emerge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444333623
• ISBN 13: 9781444333626
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Scoular Jane, Sanders Teela