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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253351203321

Autore

Mattson Greggor

Titolo

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform : Governing Loose Women / / by Greggor Mattson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-51717-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

363.44094

Soggetti

Social policy

Sociology

Welfare state

Political sociology

Ethnology—Europe

Sports—Sociological aspects

Social Policy

Gender Studies

Politics of the Welfare State

Political Sociology

European Culture

Sociology of Sport and Leisure

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Governing Loose Women: The New Politics of Prostitution; 2 States of Anxiety: Prostitution Reform as a Symptom of European Integration; 3 Dutch Pragmatism and the Difficulties of Professionalizing Prostitution; 4 Legislating Peace for Women: Sweden's Sex Purchase Act; 5 German Consensus for Sex Work, Compromise over Sex Business; 6 Finland on the Fence: Abolitionist Compromise at the Edge of Europe; 7 Seeing as a State: Transnational Problems through National Lenses

8 The Truly Trafficked Woman, and Other Globalization Anxieties9



Methodological Afterword: Identity Work and the Interviewer; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.