Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research

The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research unites 45 contributions from researchers, sex workers, activists, and practitioners who live and work in 28 countries throughout the world. Focusing tightly on the contemporary state of sex industry research through eight carefully selected themes, this volume sets a clear agenda for future research, activism, and policymaking. Approaching the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective on an expanding field frequently divided by political and ideological conflicts, the handbook clearly establishes the parameters of the field while also showcasing the most vibrant contemporary empirical and theoretical work. Unprecedented in its global scope, the Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research will appeal to students, researchers, and policy makers interested in fields such as sociology of gender and sexuality; crime, justice, and the sex industry; sociology of work and professions; and sexual politics.

Susan Dewey is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming, USA. Isabel Crowhurst is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex, UK. Chimaraoke Izugbara is Director of Global Health, Youth and Development research at the International Center for Research on Women, USA.

1. Introduction 2. Sex industry research: key theories, methods, and challenges Part 1: The research enterprise 3. The research enterprise: an introduction 4. Selective vision: how disciplinary frames, funding streams, and social policy shape research on sex work 5. Redesigning the study of sex work: a case for intersectionality and reflexivity 6. First-person singular(s): teasing out multiple meanings in sex work autobiographies 7. "Sisters of the night": ethical and practical challenges in researching prostitution among minors in Ghana 8. An action research project with sex worker peer educators in Lisbon, Portugal: collaboration as a key issue for empowerment 9. Researchers and gatekeepers in participatory action research in Japan's sex industry Part 2: Socio-legal practices 10. Socio-legal practices: an introduction 11. Understanding prostitution policy: the challenges to regulating prostitution and how to harness them 12. Red-light districts in three Belgian cities 13. Sex worker rights activism and the decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand 14. Sex work and the socio-legal space in Nigeria: an update 15. "Bridge over troubled water": what sex workers face while embarking on new paths and what helps them leave prostitution in Germany 16. Exploring resilience among female sex workers in Johannesburg Part 3: Global knowledge flows 17. Global knowledge flows: an introduction 18. Globally circulating discourses on the sex industry: a focus on three world regions 19. Sex trafficking as desaparición [disappearance]: vernacularised human rights discourses in the Argentine anti-trafficking campaign 20 Beyond dichotomies: exploring responses to tackling the sex industry in Nepal 21. "Something about us for us": exploring ways of making research with sex workers in South Africa 22 We need to talk about youth prostitution: a story about the demise of youth prostitution in England and Wales 23. The garotos from Brazil: xenophobia and the sex trafficking of men 24. Re-assembling the feminist war machine: state, feminisms and sex workers in Russia Part 4: Families and intimate relationships 25. Families and intimate relationships: an introduction 26. Understanding the strengths, challenges, and strategies of navigating work life and personal life among sex workers 27. From clients to "friends" or "lovers": Latin American sex workers coping with the economic crisis in Spain 28. Money talks? Secrecy and money management in the family affective bonds of women who perform sex commerce in Argentina 29. The presence and absence of sex workers' mothering 30. Bridging tourism and prostitution through intimacy: gay men's sex tourism in Bangkok Part 5: Clients 31. Clients: an introduction 32 Men in brothels: (homo)sexuality in Rio de Janeiro's commercial sexual venues 33. The characteristics and motivations of women who buy sex in Australia 34. The "john": our new folk devil 35. Men, culture, modernity, and sex work in southeastern Nigeria 36. Entrepreneurship, network building, and clientelism in China's hostess bars Part 6: Third parties 37. Third parties: an introduction 38. Multiplicity and demonic alliances: an anthropological approach to the problem of third parties in prostitution 39. Reflecting on labour exploitation in the sex industry 40. Protection through repression? Theorising everyday police interactions with sex workers in Geneva 41. Sex trading in neighbourhood context: facilitation, violence, and the spectrum of young women's exploitation 42. Supporting female survivors of sex trafficking in Russia: ethical challenges and dilemmas faced by a counselling psychologist Part 7: Cultural representations 43. Cultural representations: an introduction 44. Pleasures of the flesh: the image of the prostitute in African literature 45 Shifting gazes and challenging discourses about sex work and mega-events in Brazil 46. Fictions of selling sex: new literatures of queer sex work 47. State and cross-border sex trade in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria 48 "Down on whores": considering representations of Jack the Ripper's victims 49. Public encounters with whorephobia: making sense of hostility toward sex worker advocates 50 Two women, two murders: stigmatized media representations of violence against sex workers Part 8: Technologies 51. Technologies: an introduction 52. Technology-mediated sex work: fluidity, networking and regulation in the UK 53. Justice-oriented ecologies: a framework for designing technologies with sex work support services 54. Selling sexual services in the digital age: flexible work opportunities for the self-employed entrepreneur or precarious unregulated labour? 55. Mobile phone technology: opportunities and perils for female sex workers in India 56. The ordinary nature of fantasy: language, gender and sexuality in phone sex work 57. "I need $5 million": what sex workers making media tell you that no one else can