1st Edition
Sex and the City: Geographies of Prostitution in the Urban West Geographies of Prostitution in the Urban West
By Philip Hubbard
Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: Prostitution has always played a crucial symbolic role in the definition of moral and sexual standards and, as such, the figure of the prostitute has been paradigmatic in the history of the sex and the city. Focusing on the geographies of female prostitution in Western societies, this book explores the nature of sites of sex work and the ways they... Read more
Introduction. 1. Prostitution, Sex Work and Power. 2. Sexuality and Space: The Moral Geography of Heterosex. 3. Immoral Geographies: The Prostitute as an Urban 'Other'. 4. Space, Law and Public Order: Policing the Spaces of Prostitution. 5. Community Protest, Citizenship and the Paranoid Public. 6. Sites of Sex Work, Spaces of Resistance? 7. Conclusion.
Biography
Phillip Hubbard
