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Author:   Susanne Thorbek ,  Bandana Pattanaik
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781842770313

ISBN 10:   1842770314
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 October 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Prostitution in a Global Context: Changing Patterns - Susanne Thorbek PART 1: MEN IN PROSTITUTION 1. Travellers' Tails: Sex Diaries of Tourists Returning from Thailand - Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson 2. The European Inheritance: Male Perspectives - Susanne Thorbek 3. The Beach Boy of Barbados: Post-Colonial Entrepreneurs - Joan L. Phillips PART 2: MIGRANT WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION 4. A Social Response to Transnational Prostitution in Queensland, Australia - Linda Meaker 5. The Transnational Prostitution of Thai Women to Germany: A Variety of Transnational Labour Migration? - Pataya Ruenkaew 6. Four Cases from Hamburg - Prapairat Rataloan Mix 7. Bodies across Borders: Prostitution-related Migration from Thailand to Denmark - Anders Lisborg 8. Black Prostitutes in Denmark - Marlene Spanger PART 3: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS 9. A Portrait of the Lady: The Portrayal of Thailand and its Prostitutes in the International Media - Chitraporn Vanaspong 10. 'Il ya 50,000 prostitu‚es marocaines de luxe dans la cote espagnole': A Necessary Myth - Ana Lopez Lindstrom PART 4: NEW POLICIES ON PROSTITUTION 11. Migrant Sex Workers in Canada - Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp 12. Business like any other? Managing the Sex Industry in the Netherlands - Marieke van Doorninck 13. Sweden's Law on Prostitution: Feminism, Drugs and the Foreign Threat - Author Gould PART 5: CONCLUSION 14. Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? - Bandana Pattanaik

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'This collection of detailed, smart and sensitive case studies will help us make gritty sense of how globalization is actually working in women's and men's lives, and wiser about the international dynamics shaping racialization, the state, migration and sexuality.' - Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives

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Bandana Pattanaik currently works as the programme coordinator of research and training at the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Bangkok. Dr Susanne Thorbek (DPhil) is employed as senior lecturer at Aalborg University, Denmark, where she is a member of the Centre for Feminist Research and of the Centre on Development and International Relations.

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