Gebundenes Buch

Selling Sex in the City

A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

Herausgeber: García, Magaly Rodríguez

Beschreibung

Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.

Autor

Magaly Rodríguez García, Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer of contemporary history at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She has published on the International Labour Organization, the League of Nations' campaigns against trafficking and child labour, the history and definitions of prostitution and coerced labour. Lex Heerma van Voss, is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW) and professor in the History of Social Security at Utrecht University. He has published on the international comparative history of work. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Ph.D. (2007), is a global labour and gender historian, working as Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on women's and children's work, and participated in several projects comparing the history of workers worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 1419g
• ISBN-13: 9789004346246
• ISBN-10: 9004346244
• Artikelnr.: 48507840