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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Transnational prostitution. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2002 (OCoLC)647514697 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susanne Thorbek; Bandana Pattanaik |
ISBN: | 1842770306 9781842770306 1842770314 limp 9781842770313 limp |
OCLC Number: | 49386080 |
Description: | x, 237 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Prostitution in a Global Context: Changing Patterns / Susanne Thorbek -- pt. 1. Men in Prostitution -- 1. Traveller's Tails: Sex Diaries of Tourists Returning from Thailand / Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson -- 2. The European Inheritance: Male Perspectives / Susanne Thorbek -- 3. The Beach Boys of Barbados: Post-colonial Entrepreneurs / Joan L. Phillips -- pt. 2. Migrant Women in Prostitution -- 4. A Social Response to Transnational Prostitution in Queensland, Australia / Linda Meaker -- 5. The Transnational Prostitution of Thai Women to Germany: A Variety of Transnational Labour Migration? / Pataya Ruenkaew -- 6. Four Cases from Hamburg / Prapairat Ratanaloan Mix -- 7. Bodies Across Borders: Prostitution-related Migration from Thailand to Denmark / Anders Lisborg -- 8. Black Prostitutes in Denmark / Marlene Spanger -- pt. 3. Critical Reflections -- 9. A Portrait of the Lady: The Portrayal of Thailand and Its Prostitutes in the International Media / Chitraporn Vanaspong -- 10. 'Il y a 50.000 prostituees marocaines de luxe dans la cote espagnole': A Necessary Myth / Ana Lopez Lindstrom -- pt. 4. New Policies on Prostitution -- 11. Migrant Sex-workers in Canada / Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp -- 12. A Business Like Any Other? Managing the Sex Industry in the Netherlands / Marieke Van Doorninck -- 13. Sweden's Law on Prostitution: Feminism, Drugs and the Foreign Threat / Arthur Gould -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? / Bandana Pattanaik. |
Responsibility: | edited by Susanne Thorbek and Bandana Pattanaik. |
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Abstract:
Prostitution is changing under the influence of Western affluence, deepening Third World poverty, cheaper travel, cultural shifts in attitudes to extra-marital sex,and the Internet. This global survey looks at the prostitutes themselves, their clients, and the pimps and international traffickers.
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'This collection of detailed, smart and sensitive case studies will help us make gritty sense of how globalization is actually working in women's and men's lives, and wiser about the international dynamics shaping racialization, the state, migration and sexuality.' - Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives Read more...
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