Legalized Prostitution in Germany (eBook)

Inside the New Mega Brothels

Annegret Staiger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
296 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05895-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Weaving insightful scholarship with beautiful storytelling, Legalized Prostitution in Germany provides readers with a deeper understanding of the complexities of legalized prostitution.

— Annegret Staiger is Associate Professor of Sociology at Clarkson University. Her first monograph, Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multicultural Metropolis, was published with Stanford University Press in 2006. — The topic is important because it provides fascinating insight into the ramifications of differences in cultural responses to issues of gender, money, labor, and criminal justice. The work is more than a compare and contrast between puritanical America and sexually-liberalized Germany, however, as it investigates with real empathy and clarity the moral, emotional, and legal complexities inherent for all stakeholders in legalized prostitution. — Simply stated, this is a fantastic book. It incorporates scholarship with a light hand and clear language but primarily focuses on narrative and reads very much like creative nonfiction of the highest order. In doing so, it doesn't oversimplify the material for readers and thereby treats both topic and audience with dignity and respect. There is no point at which this work tips into the tawdry, yet it is always written with a compelling narrative style that speeds the reader forward despite the complex relationships and situations being presented. — The audience is anthropologists working on Europe and the EU, gender, migration, sexuality studies, and criminal justice. The work would also appeal to scholars as well as graduate students and especially undergraduate students working in women's studies, human trafficking, critical race theory, and sex in a global perspective/sex and commerce. A particularly strong marketing possibility would be the Univeristy of Wisconsin System Women's and Gender Studies Consortium, which has a yearly conference and which organizes approximately 300 courses to over 8,000 students yearly. (https://consortium.gws.wisc.edu/what-is-the-wgsc/)

Autor

Annegret D. Staiger is Professor of Anthropology at Clarkson University. She is author of Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sex in the Public Sphere
2. The Decline of the Red Light District
3. The New Red Light Geography and Changing Regimes of Prostitution
4. Work and Life at the Flamingo: Portraits of the Girls
5. Zuhälter on the Brothel Floor and Labor Discipline
6. Prestige, Belonging, and Coercion: The Gift in Sex for Sale
7. Sex Clients: At the Club, On the Forum, and at the Pub
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 22 b&w illus., 3 b&w tables
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: East European • European Union • Gender • Gift Economy • Industry • johns • labor conditions • Legalization • Migrants • Policy • Prostitute • Red Light District • sauna clubs • Sexuality • Sex Work • Trafficking
• ISBN-10: 0-253-05895-3 / 0253058953
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-05895-9 / 9780253058959