Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Business of Pleasure

A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of Europe

Av Elwin Hofman, Magaly Rodríguez García, Pieter Vanhees

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First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in BelgiumIn 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the decriminalisation of sex work. This move positioned the small nation as the first country in Europe – and the second globally – to abandon the hypocrisy of tolerance. But this was not the first time paid sex in Belgium gained international notoriety. The medieval bathhouses and ‘frows of Flanders’ were well-known throughout Europe. In the nineteenth century, Belgium faced international outrage as the alleged epicentre of white slavery. Yet while Belgians were accused of forcing white women into prostitution, they were left alone when it came to the inclusion of any suspect woman in the prostitution registers of colonial Congo. Throughout the First and Second World Wars, both allied and German soldiers sought relief in Belgian brothels. The Business of Pleasure presents the compelling life stories of sex workers and their interactions with authorities, clients and pimps. Transcending stereotypes, this history of commercial sex offers a nuanced understanding of the difficulties and opportunities associated with paid sex for women, men and trans persons past and present.Contributors: Elwin Hofman (Utrecht University), Magaly Rodríguez García (KU Leuven), Pieter Vanhees (former researcher KU Leuven), Jelle Haemers (KU Leuven), Amandine Lauro (Université libre de Bruxelles), Maarten Loopmans (KU Leuven), Ilias Loopmans (MA history student at University of Antwerp), Sonia Verstappen (former sex worker).

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-16
Mått: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Vikt: 268 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 184
Förlag: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789462704107

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Elwin Hofman is a cultural historian and writer. He teaches at Utrecht University and has (co)authored several books on cultural history, including a history of homosexuality in Belgium. Magaly Rodríguez García is an authority on the history of international labour organisations and subaltern history. She is a professor at KU Leuven and collaborates with Belgian and foreign colleagues on projects regarding, inter alia, sex work and prostitution policy at the local, national and supranational levels. In the context of oral history projects, she became closely involved with advocacy groups for vulnerable persons such as sex workers and homeless people. Pieter Vanhees is a social historian and has researched the history of prostitution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at KU Leuven.

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La traduction en anglais de cet ouvrage lui assure de satisfaire aussi bien les lectrices et lecteurs qui souhaitent découvrir, par le prisme de la sexualité tarifée, l'histoire de ce pays situé au coeur de l'Europe, que celles et ceux qui envisagent de mieux connaître l'histoire du marché du sexe, au regard du cas beige. Surtout, cette publication répond à son ambition d'être une « ode à la diversite » (p. 19) caractérisant le travail du sexe, grâce à son ampleur chronologique, son regard au-delà des frontières continentales beiges et par le nombre de spécialistes signant une contribution. - Julie Bellotto, Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, LV, 2025, 3-4, https://www.journalbelgianhistory.be/nl/journal/belgisch-tijdschrift-voor-nieuwste-geschiedenis-lv-2025-3-4

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