The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform Governing Loos
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 o
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The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform Governing L oose Women Greggor Mattson
THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EUROPEAN PROSTITUTION REFORM Copyright © Greggor Mattson 2016
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1
Governing Loose Women: The New Politics of Prostitution
1
2
States of Anxiety: Prostitution Reform as a Symptom of European Integration
27
Dutch Pragmatism and the Difficulties of Professionalizing Prostitution
51
4
Legislating Peace for Women: Sweden’s Sex Purchase Act
77
5
German Consensus for Sex Work, Compromise over Sex Business
97
3
6 7 8 9
Finland on the Fence: Abolitionist Compromise at the Edge of Europe
127
Seeing as a State: Transnational Problems through National Lenses
155
The Truly Trafficked Woman, and Other Globalization Anxieties
167
Methodological Afterword: Identity Work and the Interviewer
181
Notes
193
Bibliography
219
Index
235
List of Figures and Tables
Figures 1.0
Lone Women on the Move
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Fortress Europe: Welcom
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