The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.

This work will likely be read by scholars interested in prostitution specifically and sexuality more broadly, where Mattson succeeds best is in taking a specific social problem and showing how it encapsulates cultural dynamics of an institutional nature. Mattson's use of key informant interviews provides a specific and substantial contribution to our understanding of how social problems are articulated 'in the trenches' by activists and bureaucrats. (Bayliss J. Camp, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 122 (4), January, 2017)

Autorentext
Greggor Mattson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College, USA.

Inhalt

1. Governing Loose Women: The New Politics of Prostitution
2. States of Anxiety: Prostitution Reform as a Symptom of European Integration
3. Dutch Pragmatism and the Difficulties of Professionalizing Prostitution
4. Legislating Peace for Women: Sweden ' 's Sex Purchase Act
5. German Consensus for Sex Work, Compromise Over Sex Business
6. Finland on the Fence: Abolitionist Compromise at the Edge of Europe
7. Seeing Transnational Problems Through National Lenses
8. The Truly Trafficked Woman, and Other Globalization Anxieties
9. Methodological Afterword: Identity Work and the Interviewer