Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective

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Review "A rich and deeply insightful collection of ethnographic studies of sex work, taking us from China to Braziland from South Africa to North America. Probing into the complex nexus of structure and agency, exploitation and liberation, it sensitively exposes the need for public policy that is evidence-based and responsive to the lives and experiences of sex-working adults and children. A tremendously valuable and welcome collection for teaching, research, and analysis of contemporary conditions in the global sex trade." (Kamala Kempadoo,author of Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labour) Read more About the Author Susan Dewey is Associate Professor of Gender and Social Justice at University of Wyoming and author of Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution (NYUP 2017)Patty Kelly is Assistant Research Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel. Read more