Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and
a decline in the 'double standard'would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation …

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social
categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality …

This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few
empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to …

Drawing on original empirical data with men who buy sex, this book takes a fresh look at the
relationships clients have with female sex workers. The core questions that form the …

This article presents an overview of research on gender in Spanish society. Six areas of
literature are examined including families, education, work, politics, sexuality, and men. The …

This title was first published in 2000: Prostitution has always played a crucial symbolic role
in the definition of moral and sexual standards and, as such, the figure of the prostitute has …

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the
1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and …

Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on
more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province …

Whilst much has been written about the identification of resilience in children and their
families, comparatively little has been written about what practitioners can do to support …

There has been a recent expansion in research into various markets and aspects of the sex
industry. With investigation on the increase, this article takes a step back to consider the …