Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

Magaly Rodríguez García, Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer of contemporary history at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She has published on the International Labour Organization, the League of Nations' campaigns against trafficking and child labour, the history and definitions of prostitution and coerced labour.Lex Heerma van Voss, is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW) and professor in the History of Social Security at Utrecht University. He has published on the international comparative history of work.Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Ph.D. (2007), is a global labour and gender historian, working as Associate Professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on women’s and children’s work, and participated in several projects comparing the history of workers worldwide.

"It provides a densely rich and complex look at five hundred years of social, economic, and political entanglements that will fascinate global and world historians, as well as those interested in colonial, urban, and migration history. In providing novel approaches to understanding the contested theories and practices around sold sex, Selling Sex in the City is an essential, even if very large, handbook for activists and political actors engaged in debates around sex work and human trafficking". Ruth Ennis, in Comparativ, vol. 29(6), (2019).

• List of Illustrations1 Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An IntroductionMagaly Rodríguez García, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van VossPart 1: Urban OverviewsSection 1: Europe2 Selling Sex in AmsterdamMarion Pluskota3 Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in BrugesMaja Mechant4 Sex for Sale in FlorenceMichela Turno5 A Global History of Prostitution: LondonJulia Laite6 Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, RussiaPhilippa Hetherington7 The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in ParisSusan P. Conner8 Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and ChangeYvonne SvanströmSection 2: Africa and the Middle East9 Prostitution in CairoHanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani10 Colonial and Post-Colonial CasablancaLiat Kozma11 Selling Sex in IstanbulMark David Wyers12 Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical PerspectiveMfon Umoren Ekpootu13 Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010Deborah Bernstein, Hila Shamir, Nomi Levenkron and Dlila AmirSection 3: The Americas14 A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos AiresCristiana Schettini15 Prostitution in the us: ChicagoMary Linehan16 Prostitution in HavanaAmalia L. Cabezas17 Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes18 The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosi (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first CenturiesPascale Absi19 Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without RegulationThaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana SchettiniSection 4: Asia-Pacific20 Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and PresentSatarupa Dasgupta21 Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954)Isabelle Tracol-Huynh22 Prostitution in ShanghaiSue Gronewold23 Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International EntrepôtShawna Herzog24 Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788Raelene FrancesPart 2: Thematic Overviews25 “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010Marion Pluskota26 Working and Living ConditionsRaelene Frances27 Migration and ProstitutionNicole Keusch28 Prostitution and Colonial RelationsLiat Kozma29 Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex WorkThaddeus Gregory Blanchette30 Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex WorkMark David Wyers31 A Gender Analysis of Global Sex WorkElise van Nederveen Meerkerk32 The Social Profiles of ProstitutesMaja MechantPart 3: Conclusion33 Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the ProjectElise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss