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Author:   Amber Horning ,  Anthony Marcus
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.498kg
ISBN:  

9783319503035

ISBN 10:   3319503030
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   09 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface.- Introduction: In Search of Pimps and Other Varieties.- 1. Sympathy for the devil: Pimps, agents and third parties involved in the sale of sex in Rio de Janeiro.- 2. Loved or seduced? Intimate relationships between Hungarian sex workers and pimps in Berlin’s Kurfürstenstraße.- 3. Pimps, bottoms and the nexus of caring and cash in a Harlem sex market.- 4. Managers’ rules about sex worker’s health and safety in the illicit online sex market: Considering profits and risks.- 5. Exit from the game: Ex-pimps and Desistance in the U.S.A.- 6. Managing conflict: An examination of three-way alliances in Canadian escort and massage businesses.- 7. Perceptions about pimps in an upscale mega brothel in Germany.-  8. Black Pimps Matter:  Racially Selective Identification and Prosecution of Sex Trafficking in the United States.

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Amber Horning is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at William Paterson University. She researches sex markets, human trafficking and forced migration. Her dissertation is based on one of the largest and most comprehensive data collection about ‘pimps’ in the United States. She is currently working on a project investigating pimp/sex worker ‘bottom’ dyads in New York City and on another project about unaccompanied minor refugees waiting for asylum in Sweden. Anthony Marcus is professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, with almost three decades of experience studying gender and masculinity among hidden, vulnerable and stigmatized urban populations. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Dialectical Anthropology and has published numerous books for teaching American History at the tertiary. 

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