Cities of pleasure : sex and the urban socialscape / edited by Alan Collins.
"This collection explores various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including: (i) the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of...
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London :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Sexuality and sexual services in the urban economy and socialscape : an overview / Alan Collins
- 2. Space, risk and opportunity : the evolution of paid sex markets / Samuel Cameron
- 3. The changing nature of adult entertainment districts : between a rock and a hard place or going from strength to strength? / Andrew Ryder
- 4. Cleansing the metropolis : sex work and the politics of zero tolerance / Phil Hubbard
- 5. The risks of street prostitution : punters, police and protesters / Teela Sanders
- 6. Homosexuality and the city : an historical overview / Robert Aldrich
- 7. Urban space and homosexuality : the example of the Marais, Paris' 'gay ghetto' / Michael Sibalis
- 8. Where love dares (not) speak its name : the expression of homosexuality in Singapore / Kean Fan Lim
- 9. Sexual dissidence, enterprise and assimilation : bedfellows in urban regeneration / Alan Collins
- 10. Authenticating queer space : citizenship, urbanism and governance / David Bell and Jon Binnie
- 11. Sex and not the city? :the aspirations of the thirty-something working woman / Joanna Brewis
- 12. Queer as folk : producing the real of urban space / Beverley Skeggs, Leslie Moran, Paul Tyrer and Jon Binnie.