Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious "sin cities" around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore and from Casablanca to Chicago. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication. Contributors are: Pascale Absi, Dlila Amir, Deborah Bernstein, Francesca Biancani, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Amalia L. Cabezas, Susan P. Conner, Satarupa Dasgupta, Mfon Umoren Ekpootu, Raelene Frances, Pamela Fuentes, Sue Gronewold, Hanan Hammad, Shawna Herzog, Philippa Hetherington, Nicole Keusch, Liat Kozma, Julia Laite, Nomi Levenkron, Mary Linehan, Maja Mechant, Fernanda Nunez, Marion Pluskota, Cristiana Schettini, Hila Shamir, Yvonne Svanstroem, Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, Michela Turno, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, and Mark David Wyers.

List of Illustrations 1 Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s-2000s: An Introduction Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss Part 1: Urban Overviews Section 1: Europe 2 Selling Sex in Amsterdam Marion Pluskota 3 Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges Maja Mechant 4 Sex for Sale in Florence Michela Turno 5 A Global History of Prostitution: London Julia Laite 6 Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia Philippa Hetherington 7 The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris Susan P. Conner 8 Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change Yvonne Svanstroem Section 2: Africa and the Middle East 9 Prostitution in Cairo Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani 10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca Liat Kozma 11 Selling Sex in Istanbul Mark David Wyers 12 Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria's Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective Mfon Umoren Ekpootu 13 Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918-2010 Deborah Bernstein, Hila Shamir, Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir Section 3: The Americas 14 A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires Cristiana Schettini 15 Prostitution in the us: Chicago Mary Linehan 16 Prostitution in Havana Amalia L. Cabezas 17 Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521-2006 Fernanda Nunez and Pamela Fuentes 18 The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosi (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries Pascale Absi 19 Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini Section 4: Asia-Pacific 20 Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present Satarupa Dasgupta 21 Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885-1954) Isabelle Tracol-Huynh 22 Prostitution in Shanghai Sue Gronewold 23 Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepot Shawna Herzog 24 Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 Raelene Frances Part 2: Thematic Overviews 25 "We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers' Rights": Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600-2010 Marion Pluskota 26 Working and Living Conditions Raelene Frances 27 Migration and Prostitution Nicole Keusch 28 Prostitution and Colonial Relations Liat Kozma 29 Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette 30 Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work Mark David Wyers 31 A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 32 The Social Profiles of Prostitutes Maja Mechant Part 3: Conclusion 33 Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s-2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Magaly Rodriguez Garcia and Lex Heerma van Voss