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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics by Teela Sanders, Maggie O
    Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics - by Teela Sanders, Maggie O'Neill and Jane Pitcher

    £28.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473989351 | ISBN 10: 1473989353

    The field of sex work has undergone a massive expansion in the past ten years. In this new edition, three leading researchers come together to provide an interdisciplinary outline of sex work. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key areas co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant
    Playing the Whore - by Melissa Gira Grant

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683231 | ISBN 10: 1781683239

    "An important contribution to debates around sex and work ... deserves to be read."(Nina Power) The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," whi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran
    Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution - by Rachel Moran

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780717160327 | ISBN 10: 0717160327

    ‘When you are fifteen years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.’   Rachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into State care at fourteen, she ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Agency of Their Own: Sex Worker Union Organizing by Gregor Gall
    An Agency of Their Own: Sex Worker Union Organizing - by Gregor Gall

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846942549 | ISBN 10: 1846942543

    This book concerns the projects and processes of sex worker unionisation and more widely forms of sex worker self-interest representation.  Since the late 1980s, sex workers have unionised themselves as collective associations of workers in thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work by Kim Price-Glynn
    Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work - by Kim Price-Glynn

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780814767610 | ISBN 10: 0814767613

    In Strip Club, Kim Price‒Glynn takes us behind the scenes at a rundown club where women strip out of economic need, a place where strippers’ stories are not glamorous or liberating, but emotionally demanding and physically exhausting. Strip Clu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex as Crime? by Gayle Letherby et al (editors)
    Sex as Crime? - by Gayle Letherby et al (editors)

    £32.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843922674 | ISBN 10: 1843922673

    This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years. For example, the 'Paying the Pri ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Industrial Vagina: the Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys
    The Industrial Vagina: the Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade - by Sheila Jeffreys

    £28.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780415412339 | ISBN 10: 0415412331

    The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.   The Industrial Vagina examines how pro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute by Bua Boonmee, with Nicola Pierce
    Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute - by Bua Boonmee, with Nicola Pierce

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905379439 | ISBN 10: 1905379439

    'Sometimes I wonder was I born to be unfortunate; is this my life my destiny? I pray to Biddha that this not be the case. My life seems to be that of a country girl who has spent her days escaping from a tiger, only to be eaten by a crocodile. Mine i ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Game: Women and Sex Work by Sophie Day
    On the Game: Women and Sex Work - by Sophie Day

    £27.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780745317588 | ISBN 10: 0745317588

    On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their attempts to manage their lives against a backdrop of social disapproval. The ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin
    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry - by Laura Maria Agustin

    £19.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781842778609 | ISBN 10: 1842778609

    This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment With Legalised Prostitution by Mary Lucille Sullivan
    Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment With Legalised Prostitution - by Mary Lucille Sullivan

    £19.95   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781876756604 | ISBN 10: 1876756608

    Does legalisation solve the dangers of sex work?   Sex worker advocates have argued for many years that legalising prostitution is the way to make the industry safer both for workers and clients. In 1984, the State of Victoria did just that, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unprotected by Esther Wilson, John Fay, Tony Green & Lizzie Nunnery
    Unprotected - by Esther Wilson, John Fay, Tony Green & Lizzie Nunnery

    £9.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780856762918 | ISBN 10: 0856762911

    Winner of Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression award, presented as part of the Scotsman Awards at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival.   Unprotected explores the recent developments in Liverpool that surround the sex trade industry through a docum ... more

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  • Cover image of book Price of Sex: Prostitution, Policy and Society by Belinda Brooks-Gordon
    Price of Sex: Prostitution, Policy and Society - by Belinda Brooks-Gordon

    £30.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843920878 | ISBN 10: 1843920875

    As a society we are buying more sex than ever before. Adult sex shops now take their place amongst retailers in the high street and lap dancing clubs compete for an increased share of the leisure economy; hotel chains offer sexually explicit films as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living and Working in Areas of Street Sex Work by Jane Pitcher, Rosie Campbell et al
    Living and Working in Areas of Street Sex Work - by Jane Pitcher, Rosie Campbell et al

    £13.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781861348661 | ISBN 10: 1861348665

    There has been considerable recent policy debate on street sex work in local neighbourhoods and responses to community concerns. This report examines how residential areas characterised as areas of female street sex work are shared by different secti ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography and Prostitution by Aiden Shaw
    My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography and Prostitution - by Aiden Shaw

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780786717439 | ISBN 10: 0786717432

    The star of more than 50 adult films, Aiden Shaw ranks as one of gay porn's all-time favourite performers. His films have brought him international celebrity, including the honour of having Sex and the City writers name a character after him. Now, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Illicit and Illegal: Sex, Regulation and Social Control by Joanna Phoenix & Sarah Oerton
    Illicit and Illegal: Sex, Regulation and Social Control - by Joanna Phoenix & Sarah Oerton

    £30.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843920809 | ISBN 10: 1843920808

    This book is about the surprisingly neglected area of the regulation of sex. It describes and discusses the ways in which various sexual activities are controlled, regulated and made illegal and/or deviant and illicit. Its primary focus is upon the m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex Work: A Risky Business by Teela Sanders
    Sex Work: A Risky Business - by Teela Sanders

    £30.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781843920823 | ISBN 10: 1843920824

    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 advance a greater knowledge of the social organisation of the sex indust ... more

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  • Cover image of book Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
    Autobiography of a Geisha - by Sayo Masuda

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099462040 | ISBN 10: 0099462044

    The glamourous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers, but Sayo Masuda's tale tells a different story. Masuda was a geisha at a rural hot-springs resort where the realities of sex for sale were unadorned by the trappings of wealth and po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry by Jeremy Seabrook
    Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry - by Jeremy Seabrook

    £24.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780745317564 | ISBN 10: 0745317561

    This updated version of Jeremy Seabrook's book Travels in the Skin Trade contains a new preface, highlighting the current issues surrounding sex tourism in Thailand.   Press coverage of the sex trade routinely consists of ill-informed, morali ... more

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  • Cover image of book Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes by Don Kulick
    Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - by Don Kulick

    £22.00   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780226461007 | ISBN 10: 0226461009

    In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
    Gather Together in My Name - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9781844085026 | ISBN 10: 1844085023

    Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, a ... more

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