Regulating sex/work: from crime control to neo-liberalism?

Recent years have borne witness to an unprecedented rise in - and an increased visibility of - sexual commerce and consumption, with a corresponding growthin associated forms of regulation. Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control toNeo-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 thatfuels the sex markets, the diversification of sex markets, and their embeddednature in socioeconomic infrastructures is more intense than ever. Each chapter in this book addresses contemporary empirical examples of the regulation ofthe 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 narrowforms of prostitution and allows for a more complex portrait of sex industry regulation to emerge.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.

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3362-6
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 236
• Fecha Publicación: 02/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés