Prostitutes and Their Rescuers: Sociological Dynamics and Public Controversies in French Prostitution (Youth in a Globalizing World, 20)

Lilian Mathieu

ISBN 10: 9004540059 / ISBN 13: 9789004540057

Published by Brill Academic, 2023

About this Item

Hardcover, ix + 178 pages, NOT ex-library. Two short closed edge-tears on the lower spine. Else little minor handling wear. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Few sociological subjects excite so much passion - and fantasies - as prostitution. Relying on a thirty year-long study of the French case, Lilian Mathieu offers an objective and comprehensive account of prostitution realities, first by analyzing the sex market as a social world with its own rules, hierarchies, and vulnerabilities, but also by stressing how prostitutes' practice and living conditions are framed and shaped by moral campaigns, public controversies, and state policies. By doing so, the book offers a new understanding of how the "deviant" and "normal" worlds interact and transform sexual norms.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prostitutes and Their Rescuers: Sociological Dynamics and Public Controversies in French Prostitution (Youth in a Globalizing World, 20)
• Publisher: Brill Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004540059
• ISBN 13: 9789004540057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Few sociological subjects excite so much passion – and fantasies – as prostitution. Relying on a thirty year-long study of the French case, Lilian Mathieu offers an objective and comprehensive account of prostitution realities, first by analyzing the sex market as a social world with its own rules, hierarchies, and vulnerabilities, but also by stressing how prostitutes’ practice and living conditions are framed and shaped by moral campaigns, public controversies, and state policies. By doing so, the book offers a new understanding of how the “deviant” and “normal” worlds interact and transform sexual norms.

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About the Author

Lilian Mathieu is senior researcher in sociology at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre Max Weber--Ecole normale supérieure in Lyon). A specialist in qualitative methods, he has conducted many studies to prostitution and social movements.