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Author: Maddy Coy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9781409405450
ISBN 10: 1409405451
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 28 May 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This impressive collection tracks the multiple and substantial harms of the prostitution industry to women worldwide. Those seeking to normalize men's purchase of women rely on abstractions of agency and empowerment while marginalizing the recruitment and oppression that creates this lucrative industry. Anyone committed to equality between men and women will find in this book a welcome dose of reality.' Janine Benedet, University of British Columbia, Canada 'This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a much-needed intervention in feminist debates about prostitution. Integrating theoretical innovation with new empirical research, Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is a must-read for scholars and activists alike.' Rebecca Whisnant, University of Dayton, USA 'Taken together, the contributions of the book can be seen as pieces of a puzzle. Each one tells a part of the story of the contemporary commercialization of sex, which has been culturally normalized, by being conceptualized as women's 'choice'. Such popular approaches, the 'puzzle' shows, shadow the lived experiences of violence, exploitation and dehumanization of women in prostitution, while at the same time promoting regulatory policies based on decriminalization with doubtful effectiveness in controlling the industry.' LSE Review of Books 'In this hugely important work, the authors expose prostitution as a fundamental practice of gender inequality. It is shown to be both a cause and a consequence of unequal relations between women and men. Together the works blast through the fog of neoliberal rhetoric around individual choice and agency, and using evidence-based analysis place the harms inherent to prostitution centre-stage... Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is crucial reading for academics, practitioners, and activists. What the research and analysis attest to is that as long as society tolerates or even enables prostitution, there can be no equality for women... Prostitution
'This impressive collection tracks the multiple and substantial harms of the prostitution industry to women worldwide. Those seeking to normalize men's purchase of women rely on abstractions of agency and empowerment while marginalizing the recruitment and oppression that creates this lucrative industry. Anyone committed to equality between men and women will find in this book a welcome dose of reality.' Janine Benedet, University of British Columbia, Canada 'This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a much-needed intervention in feminist debates about prostitution. Integrating theoretical innovation with new empirical research, Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is a must-read for scholars and activists alike.' Rebecca Whisnant, University of Dayton, USA 'Taken together, the contributions of the book can be seen as pieces of a puzzle. Each one tells a part of the story of the contemporary commercialization of sex, which has been culturally normalized, by being conceptualized as women’s ’choice’. Such popular approaches, the ’puzzle’ shows, shadow the lived experiences of violence, exploitation and dehumanization of women in prostitution, while at the same time promoting regulatory policies based on decriminalization with doubtful effectiveness in controlling the industry.' LSE Review of Books 'In this hugely important work, the authors expose prostitution as a fundamental practice of gender inequality. It is shown to be both a cause and a consequence of unequal relations between women and men. Together the works blast through the fog of neoliberal rhetoric around individual choice and agency, and using evidence-based analysis place the harms inherent to prostitution centre-stage... Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is crucial reading for academics, practitioners, and activists. What the research and analysis attest to is that as long as society tolerates or even enables prostitution, there can be no equality for women... Prostitution
'This impressive collection tracks the multiple and substantial harms of the prostitution industry to women worldwide. Those seeking to normalize men's purchase of women rely on abstractions of agency and empowerment while marginalizing the recruitment and oppression that creates this lucrative industry. Anyone committed to equality between men and women will find in this book a welcome dose of reality.' Janine Benedet, University of British Columbia, Canada 'This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a much-needed intervention in feminist debates about prostitution. Integrating theoretical innovation with new empirical research, Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is a must-read for scholars and activists alike.' Rebecca Whisnant, University of Dayton, USA 'Taken together, the contributions of the book can be seen as pieces of a puzzle. Each one tells a part of the story of the contemporary commercialization of sex, which has been culturally normalized, by being conceptualized as women's 'choice'. Such popular approaches, the 'puzzle' shows, shadow the lived experiences of violence, exploitation and dehumanization of women in prostitution, while at the same time promoting regulatory policies based on decriminalization with doubtful effectiveness in controlling the industry.' LSE Review of Books 'In this hugely important work, the authors expose prostitution as a fundamental practice of gender inequality. It is shown to be both a cause and a consequence of unequal relations between women and men. Together the works blast through the fog of neoliberal rhetoric around individual choice and agency, and using evidence-based analysis place the harms inherent to prostitution centre-stage... Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is crucial reading for academics, practitioners, and activists. What the research and analysis attest to is that as long as society tolerates or even enables prostitution, there can be no equality for women... Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality is an important contribution to the growing global resistance to the sex industry.' Gender & Development '... rather than presenting or advocating a single viewpoint ... Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality provides an engaging range of voices on various issues relating to prostitution through this analytic lens. ... an engaging, multifaceted review of the sex industry through the overarching analytic lens of gender inequality-the nuanced expressions of which work to tease out many of the intricacies often forgotten in oversimplified, polarised discussions on prostitution and its regulation. ... this collection offers an important contribution to the field and to progressing debates on how prostitution should be understood and responded to. the book would be useful and worthwhile for any academic or student with an interest in prostitution and the sex industry, and in gender (in)equality and feminism more broadly, to read.' Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality
Author Information
Dr Maddy Coy is Deputy Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, UK
