Download or read book Profiles of Urban Prostitution written by Christopher James Bakwesegha and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex and the City written by Phil Hubbard and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 shape the lives of prostitutes (and their clients). In so doing, the book aims not simply to present a static mapping of sex work, but seeks to highlight how these public and private ssites are struggled over, with prostitutes often resisting the strategies of social and legal control designed to regulate their working practices. The book consequently engages with a number of contemporary debates in social, cultural and gender geography surrounding the importance of public and private spaces in producing (and reproducing) gender, sex and bodily identities.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work 2 volumes written by Melissa Hope Ditmore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cliche is that prostitution is the oldest profession. Isn't it time that the subject received a full reference treatment? This major 2-volume set is the first to treat in an inclusive reference what is usually considered a societal failing and the underside of sexuality and economic survival. The A-to-Z encyclopedia offers wide-ranging entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States. The topic of prostitution has high-interest appeal across disciplines, and the narrative entries illuminate literature, art, law, medicine, economics, politics, women's studies, religion, sociology, sexuality, film, popular culture, public health, nonfiction, American and world history, business, gender, media, education, crime, race, technology, performing arts, family, social work, social mores, pornography, the military, tourism, child labor, and more. It is targeted to the general reader, who will gain useful insight into the human race through time via its sex industry and prostitution. An introduction overviews the scope of prostitution from the earliest historical records, including the Bible. User-friendly lists that are alphabetically and topically arranged help the reader find entries of interest, as does the comprehensive index. A chronology proffers significant dates related to the topic. Each entry is signed and has suggestions for further reading. Sample entries: Abolition; Actresses; Augustine, Saint; Barr, Candy; Bible; Camp Followers; Chamberlain-Kahn Bill of 1918; Child Prostitution; Clothing, Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869; Crime; Debby Doesn't Do It for Free; Dickens, Charles; Devadasi; Entrapment; Fallen Woman Trope; Feminism; Films, Cult; Five Points; Free Love; Geisha; Globalization; Guidebooks; Hip-Hop; HIV/AIDS and the Prostitution Rights Movement; Human Rights; Incest; Internet; Jack the Ripper; Kama Sutra; League of Nations; Lulu; Male Stripping; Mann Act; Mayhew, Henry; Memoirs; Migration and Mobility; Nazi Germany; Poetry; Purity Movements; R&R; Religion; Salvation Army; Scapegoating; Slang; Storyville; Temporary Marriage; Unions; Venice; Window Prostitution.
Download or read book African Sexualities written by Sylvia Tamale and published by Fahamu/Pambazuka. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book, accessible but scholarly, by African activists. It uses research, life stories, and artistic expression--including essays, case studies, poetry, news clips, songs, fiction, memoirs, letters, interviews, short film scripts, and photographs--to examine dominant and deviant sexualities and investigate the intersections between sex, power, masculinities, and femininities. It also opens a space, particularly for young people, to think about African sexualities in different ways.
Download or read book Selling Sex in the City A Global History of Prostitution 1600s 2000s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book City of Eros written by Timothy J. Gilfoyle and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the early years of the nineteenth century on, New York saw the development of a new commercialized sexuality, at the center of a world of entertainment, consumer goods, newspapers, and advertising. Deftly blending the experiences of real New Yorkers with pathbreaking demographic research, this illuminating book opens a window into the dark heart of urban American life, showing:" "How the sex industry grew in step with the city itself. New York never had a red-light district; instead, prostitution spread through all its neighborhoods, rich and poor, from the Bowery to Harlem, and prostitution made itself equally at home in the street and the brothel, the tenement flat and the hotel, the music hall and the saloon." "The cultural stereotypes of prostitution. What New Yorkers - purity reformers, journalists, popular novelists, artists, and ordinary citizens of all kinds - thought of the prostitutes and customers in their midst and their perceptions of "fallen woman," "white slave," and "sporting man" reveal shifting American attitudes toward men's and women's roles, from colonial days to the Roaring Twenties." "The economic structure of prostitution. Landowners, including members of such prominent families as the Livingstons and the Lorillards, realized enormous profits from renting housing to prostitutes at inflated rates, and corrupt politicians and police made the payoff a fact of life for prostitutes. For women, prostitution could be a temporary resort in times of economic hardship, an avenue to financial independence when "women's work" in factories, shops, and domestic service was desperately low paid, and even, for some ambitious, entrepreneurial madams, a way of achieving substantial wealth." "The futility of efforts to stamp out commercial sex. Throughout New York's history, resigned municipal toleration of prostitution alternated with frantic efforts to suppress or control it." "The role of race, class, and successive waves of immigration. More than any other urban activity, prostitution brought New Yorkers from different worlds together. And as newcomers reached the city, they moved into the sex industry as both workers and customers." "The rise of the pimp. A decisive shift in the control of prostitution, from women themselves to men, occurred at mid-century. Violence against prostitutes increased dramatically, cresting in a wave of brothel riots, in which out-of-work immigrant and working-class men rampaged through houses of prostitution. In self-defense women turned more and more to pimps, who soon effected a transition from being bodyguards and brothel attendants to managing and controlling organized prostitution." "Above all this book profiles a gallery of New Yorkers whose lives were entwined with prostitution, from the famed preacher William Berrian, who proudly told his elite congregation that he had "not been in a house of ill-fame more than ten times," to the anti-vice reformer Anthony Comstock, and the beautiful prostitute Helen Gad, whose notorious murder by a young man of good family became a paradigmatic case of American attitudes to prostitution. The result is vivid social history that combines a flair for narrative with deep insight into the formation of modern urban life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Courtyards Markets City Streets written by Kathleen Sheldon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although women have long been active residents in African cities, explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life. The book begins with a rich introduction that discusses how women's work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. The contributors then focus on patterns of migration and urbanization, with an emphasis on the personal and social issues that influence the decision to migrate from rural areas; women's employment in varied activities from selling crafts to managing small businesses; the sometimes unavoidable practice of prostitution when options are limited; the emergence of complex new family formations deriving from access to courts and the continued strength of polygyny; and women's participation in community and political activities. The volume includes material from all regions of sub-Saharan Africa and brings together scholars from all the social sciences.
Download or read book Safer Sex in the City written by Maria Ioannou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history prostitution has always been a source of fierce debate; societies have either grudgingly tolerated it or tried (always unsuccessfully) to ban it. With the emergence of much more overt acceptance of all forms of sexual activity it has become more apparent that sex workers who ply their trade on the streets of our cities are a particularly vulnerable group at risk of violent attacks and assaults. The realization on the implications for such violence on society overall, led to the emergence of this volume. With research gathered from academics and practitioners hailing from various countries and fields, this edited collection will be invaluable for those who want to better understand the experience of street sex workers, the strategies available for managing this trade and how to help reduce the violence against the men and women who conduct it.
Download or read book The Redlight Ladies of Virginia City Nevada written by George Williams and published by Tree by the River Pub. This book was released on 1984 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses prostitution in Virginia City, Nevada, in the late nineteenth century and profiles the lives of several prostitutes and madams.
Download or read book Sex and the City written by Philip Hubbard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 shape the lives of prostitutes (and their clients). In so doing, the book aims not simply to present a static "mapping" of sex work, but seeks to highlight how these public and private ssites are struggled over, with prostitutes often resisting the strategies of social and legal control designed to regulate their working practices. The book consequently engages with a number of contemporary debates in social, cultural and gender geography surrounding the importance of public and private spaces in producing (and reproducing) gender, sex and bodily identities.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub Saharan Africa written by Kathleen Sheldon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African women’s history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50 countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. Africa is a predominantly agricultural continent, and a major factor in African agriculture is the central role of women as farmers. It is estimated that between 65 and 80 percent of African women are engaged in cultivating food for their families, and in the past that percentage was likely even higher. Thus, one common thread across much of the continent is women’s daily work in their family plot. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications; and on topics important to women in general (marriage, fertility, employment) and to African women in particular (market women, child marriage, queen mothers). This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Women in Africa.
Download or read book Sex Tourism in Africa written by Wanjohi Kibicho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism development. It addresses the conditions which generate this 'social problem' and, while not taking a potentially problematic moralistic stance it questions whether this trade is exploitative in nature, particularly in cases of child sex tourism. It then critically evaluates the current policies in place to regulate the sex tourism industry and provides suggestions for future direction.
Download or read book Tools to Support Participatory Urban Decision Making written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Undesirables Volume 1 written by Neethi P. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore based on the narratives of the city's street-based sex workers. Sex workers – female, male, and transgender – have been omnipresent in Bangalore's streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as 'undesirable' and hazards to the 'ideal public', they have their own unique imaginaries and narratives of the city and its mutations. In mapping out their spatial and social ecosystems and experiences with technology, this book redraws, rewrites, and relooks at a city and its transformations from their perspectives. The analysis of their experience is anchored to concepts around neoliberal urbanism, gender, labour informality, and the politics of technology. The authors take an unconventional journey through their spaces, comrades, and battles to announce and affirm their individuality and agency through their empowerment strategies, and through their struggles to reclaim their spaces and assert their identities as informal workers and legitimate citizens of the city.
Download or read book Urban Profile written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Population Profile written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selling Sex in Kenya written by Eglė Česnulytė and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of gendered agency under neoliberal structures, seen through the life stories and narratives of Kenyan sex workers.
