Understanding Sex for Sale

May-Len Skilbrei is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She works within the fields of criminology, gender studies, and sociology of law, and does research on the formulation and implementation of legislation and welfare policies on commercial sex and human trafficking nationally and regionally (the Nordic region), as well as on criminal justice approaches to sexual violence. She has published broadly on these topics.Marlene Spanger is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. Spanger’s research fields include ethnographic fieldwork and discursive formations within the policy fields of prostitution and human trafficking, transnational intimacies and migration with a special attention to gender, sexual and racial issues.

Digging under the common misperceptions that inform our unease with sex and money, Skilbrei and Spanger’s collection rethinks scholarly theory and provides practical tools for policy makers, scholars and activists in addressing sex for saleBarbara Brents, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USAThis book is a must read. As a collection, it offers something unique, scholarly and very original. It shows the multiplicity of meanings, all contextually bound, ascribed to prostitution. Essential reading for scholars, campaigners, students and researchers.Jo Phoenix, Professor in Criminology, Open University, UK

• Chapter 1 Speaking about sex for sale historically, spatially and politicallyPart I: Historically speakingMay-Len Skilbrei and Marlene Spanger Chapter 2 What’s the problem with prostitution? Shifting problematisations of men and women selling sexJens Rydström Chapter 3 Surveillance of dangerous liaisons through notions of sex and money Marlene Spanger Chapter 4 The production and transformation of prostitution spaces: The red light district of CataniaPatrizia Testaí Part II: Speaking from experienceChapter 5 Intensive mothering as cultural script: Boundary setting among street-involved womenKyria Brown, Susan Dewey, and Treena Orchard Chapter 6 Beyond the client: Exploring men's sexual scriptingChiara Bertone and Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto Chapter 7 The Intimate Bazaar of Female Sex TourismMarie Bruvik Heinskou Chapter 8 A ‘continuum of sexual economic exchanges’ or ‘weak agency’? Female migrant sex work in Switzerland Milena Chimienti and Marylène Lieber Chapter 9 The Fluidity of a ‘Happy Ending’: Chinese masseuses in the NetherlandsMarie-Louise Janssen Chapter 10 The 'Normal' and the 'Other' Woman of Prostitution Policy Debates: New Concerns and Solutions May-Len Skilbrei Chapter 11 The gender of trafficking, or why can’t men be sex slaves?Kerwin Kaye Part III: Speaking about controlChapter 12 Spatial Justice: how the police craft the city by enforcing law on prostitutionAlexander Kondakov