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“ronald weitzer”

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  • Legalizing Prostitution

    From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business

    by Ronald Weitzer ...
    "Weitzer provides an in-depth examination of legalized prostitution systems, while also proposing a new paradigm for understanding sex work." — Qualitative CriminologyWhile sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex Tourism in Thailand

    Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground

    by Ronald Weitzer ...
    **Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminology's Division of International CriminologyAn in-depth portrait of Thailand’s billion-dollar sex industry**Thailand is known internationally as a popular sex tourism destination. Yet, despite its size and reputation, remarkably little research has focused on the country’s sex industry over the past two ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Sex For Sale

    Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing

    Edited by Ronald Weitzer ...
    Since the publication of the second edition in 2010, the field of sex work studies has expanded. This fully updated edition of Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing presents an innovative, in-depth, and nuanced analysis of sex work, its risks, and benefits, and pays attention to newer and everchanging types of sex work and its actors, as well as public policies and laws that ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Pimp State

    Sex, Money and the Future of Equality

    by Kat Banyard ...
    Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty-First Century's big questions. Should it be legal to pay for sex? Isn't it a woman's choice whether she strips for money? Could online porn warping the attitudes ... Read more

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  • The Industrial Vagina

    The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade

    by Sheila Jeffreys ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Sex Workers Unite

    A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

    by Melinda Chateauvert ...
    A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedomFifty countries treat sex work as a legitimate job, and it has been legalized (with restrictions) in eleven others. The United States is one of the few ... Read more

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  • Power Surge

    Sex, Violence and Pornography

    by Susan Cole ...
    Frank, clear-eyed and consistent, this collection bucks the backlash against feminist ideas. With a twist on Lesbian Chic, Madonna and other icons, Cole analyzes the many forms of violence against women. Power Surge surveys the movement against pornograph ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sex Work Matters

    Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

    by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, Giulia Garofalo, Mashrur Shahid Hossain, Kerwin Kaye, Patty Kelly, Juline Koken, Barbara G. Brents, Rebecca Pates, Maggie O'Neill, Melissa Petro, Jane Pitcher, Daniel Schmidt, Jo Weldon, Carrie M. Hobbs, Kate Hausbeck, Anne Dölemeyer, Laura Mara Agustn ...
    Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Intimate Labors

    Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care

    Edited by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Eileen Boris ...
    What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to survive. This book takes a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Sex Work

    Labour, Mobility and Sexual Services

    by JaneMaree Maher, Sharon Pickering, Alison Gerard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active regulation. Globalisation has increased women’s mobility between developing and developed countries at the same time as women’s employment opportunities in the developed world are shifting. Family and intimate ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Live Sex Acts

    Women Performing Erotic Labor

    by Wendy Chapkis ...
    Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD