244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:
the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscape... Read more
1. Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape: An overview Alan Collins Part 1: Commercial Sexual Spaces, Markets and Community Responses 2. Space, Risk and Opportunity: The evolution of paid sex markets Samuel Cameron 3. The Changing Nature of Adult Entertainment Districts: Between a rock and a hard place or going from strength to strength? Andrew Ryder 4. Cleansing the Metropolis: Sex work and the politics of zero tolerance Phil Hubbard 5. The Risks of Street Prostitution: Punters, police and protesters Teela Sanders Part 2: Evolution and Development of Urban Gay Spaces 6. Homosexuality and the City: An historical overview Robert Aldrich 7. Urban Space and Homosexuality: The example of the Marais, Paris' 'gay ghetto' Michael Sibalis 8. Where Love Dares (Not) Speak Its Name: The expression of homosexuality in Singapore Kean Fan Lim 9. Sexual Dissidence, Enterprise and Assimilation: Bedfellows in urban regeneration Alan Collins 10. Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, urbanism and governance David Bell Part 3: Urban Sexuality 11. Sex and Not the City?: The aspirations of the thirty-something working woman Joanna Brewis 12. Queer as Folk: Producing the real of urban space Beverley Skeggs, Les Moran, Paul Tyrer and Jon Binnie
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Edited by Collins, Alan
