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.

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“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)

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

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Book Title: The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform
Book Subtitle: Governing Loose Women
Authors: Greggor Mattson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137517173
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51716-6Published: 17 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57477-3Due: 30 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51717-3Published: 28 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 247
Topics: Social Policy, Gender Studies, Politics of the Welfare State, Political Sociology, European Culture, Sociology of Sport and Leisure

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