Rochelle L. Dalla is associate professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Lynda M. Baker was an associate professor (retired 2010) in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University.John DeFrain is professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Celia Williamson is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Toledo.

This two-volume set comprising 34 chapters written by scholars from a wide variety of countries shows the diversity of perspectives on the commercial sex industry. The editors have achieved something that is rare in scholarship - an interdisciplinary and intersectoral lens on prostitution and trafficking that challenges the myth that they are synonymous, yet at the same time shows their frequent intersection with economic marginalization, social exclusion and repressive legal frameworks that restrict human rights for some of the most vulnerable populations. The authors also engage insightfully with both theoretical and practical issues emerging from this key arena of gender politics and policy.

• IntroductionPart I. AfricaChapter One: Perspectives of Women Sex Workers about Street-Level Prostitution in BotswanaChapter Two: Adolescents' Prostitution and the Educational Prospects of the Girl-Child in NigeriaChapter Three: Tourism and Prostitution in West Africa: A Glimpse of the "Roamers" in GhanaChapter Four: Child Sexual Exploitation in KenyaPart II. AsiaChapter Five: Prostitution in India: A Global ProblemChapter Six: Galtung's Unified Theory of Violence and its Implications for Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Sex Workers in West Bengal IndiaChapter Seven: Desiring Motherhood, Selling Sex: Women in Kolkata's Commercial Sex TradeChapter Eight: Urbanization, Gender, Rights, and HIV/AIDS Risk: The Case of Female Commercial Sex Workers in ChinaChapter Nine: Well and Truly Fucked: Transwomen, Stigma, Sex Work, and Sexual Health in South to East AsiaChapter Ten: Prostitution in IndonesiaPart III. Middle EastChapter Eleven: Jewish Sources and Trafficking in WomenChapter Twelve: Unveiling Prostitution and Human Trafficking in IsraelChapter Thirteen: Immigration, Women, and Prostitution: The Case of Women from the Former Soviet Union in IsraelChapter Fourteen: Prostitution in Morocco: Implications for Research DirectionsPart IV. OceaniaChapter Fifteen: Oscillations in the Regulation of the Sex Industry in New South Wales, Australia: Disorderly or Pragmatic?Chapter Sixteen: Reworking Sex: Prostitution in the Pacific and the Position for Law Reform

Rochelle L. Dalla is associate professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Lynda M. Baker was an associate professor (retired 2010) in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University.John DeFrain is professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Celia Williamson is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Toledo.

This two-volume set comprising 34 chapters written by scholars from a wide variety of countries shows the diversity of perspectives on the commercial sex industry. The editors have achieved something that is rare in scholarship - an interdisciplinary and intersectoral lens on prostitution and trafficking that challenges the myth that they are synonymous, yet at the same time shows their frequent intersection with economic marginalization, social exclusion and repressive legal frameworks that restrict human rights for some of the most vulnerable populations. The authors also engage insightfully with both theoretical and practical issues emerging from this key arena of gender politics and policy.

• IntroductionPart I. AfricaChapter One: Perspectives of Women Sex Workers about Street-Level Prostitution in BotswanaChapter Two: Adolescents' Prostitution and the Educational Prospects of the Girl-Child in NigeriaChapter Three: Tourism and Prostitution in West Africa: A Glimpse of the "Roamers" in GhanaChapter Four: Child Sexual Exploitation in KenyaPart II. AsiaChapter Five: Prostitution in India: A Global ProblemChapter Six: Galtung's Unified Theory of Violence and its Implications for Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Sex Workers in West Bengal IndiaChapter Seven: Desiring Motherhood, Selling Sex: Women in Kolkata's Commercial Sex TradeChapter Eight: Urbanization, Gender, Rights, and HIV/AIDS Risk: The Case of Female Commercial Sex Workers in ChinaChapter Nine: Well and Truly Fucked: Transwomen, Stigma, Sex Work, and Sexual Health in South to East AsiaChapter Ten: Prostitution in IndonesiaPart III. Middle EastChapter Eleven: Jewish Sources and Trafficking in WomenChapter Twelve: Unveiling Prostitution and Human Trafficking in IsraelChapter Thirteen: Immigration, Women, and Prostitution: The Case of Women from the Former Soviet Union in IsraelChapter Fourteen: Prostitution in Morocco: Implications for Research DirectionsPart IV. OceaniaChapter Fifteen: Oscillations in the Regulation of the Sex Industry in New South Wales, Australia: Disorderly or Pragmatic?Chapter Sixteen: Reworking Sex: Prostitution in the Pacific and the Position for Law Reform