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Title Global perspectives on prostitution and sex trafficking. [Volume 2], Europe, Latin America, North America, and Global / edited by Rochelle L. Dalla, Lynda M. Baker, John DeFrain, and Celia Williamson
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; Part One: Europe; 1. Sex Workers' Rights and Health: The Case of the Netherlands; 2. Uncomfortable Intersections? The Sexual Exploitation of Bangladeshi British Muslim Girls; 3. Bellwether Citizens: The Regulation of Male Clients of Sex Workers; 4. Female Prostitution in Russia: Yesterday and Today; Part Two: Latin America; 5. The Prostitution of Women, Men, and Children: A Brazilian Perspective; 6. Trafficking of Women in Mexico: Sexual Exploitation and Reproductive Health Status
7. Selling Bodies and Sexual Exploitation: Prostitution in Mexico8. U.S.-Mexico Borderland Female Sex Workers: Family Responsibilities and Risks for Depression; Part Three: North America; 9. From Street Comer to Statehouse: Survivors' Struggle for Civil Rights; 10. The Identity of Prostituted Women and Implications for Clinical Practice; 11. The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City; 12. Collapsing This Hushed House: Deconstructing Cultural Images of Child Prostitution in the United States
13. The Regulation of Adult Sex Work and Its Impact on the Safety, Security, and Well-Being of People Working in the Sex Industry in Canada14. Canadian University Students and the Sex Trade; Part Four: Global; 15. The Bartering of Female Sexuality through the Ages; 16. On a Street Comer Near you: Pimps as Practitioners of Torture; 17. There is not a Condom for this: The Clash between HIV/AIDS Prevention and Sex Trafficking Abolition; 18. Collaboration and Conflict: Exploring the Intersections between the Prostitution and Anti-Trafficking Communities; Index; About the Authors
Summary This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven ""geo-cultural"" areas of the world. Each of the 18 chapters in this volume provides a distinct perspective from which to contemplate the global commercial sex industry as well as a spectrum of implications for continued scholarship and research, legislative maneuvers and policy change, and suggestions for collaboration across NGOs, clinicians, and service providers
Notes About the Editors
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 17, 2014)
Subject Prostitution.
Human trafficking.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Human trafficking.
Prostitution.
Form Electronic book
Author Dalla, Rochelle L
Baker, Lynda M
Defrain, John
Williamson, Celia
ISBN 9780739143872
0739143875
Other Titles Europe, Latin America, North America, and Global