Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Volume 1

Melissa Hope Ditmore

Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 - Prostitution - 782 pages

The cliche is that prostitution is the oldest profession. Isn't it time that the subject received a full reference treatment? This major 2-volume set is the first to treat in an inclusive reference what is usually considered a societal failing and the underside of sexuality and economic survival. The A-to-Z encyclopedia offers wide-ranging entries related to prostitution and the sex industry, past and present, both worldwide (mostly in the West) and in the United States. The topic of prostitution has high-interest appeal across disciplines, and the narrative entries illuminate literature, art, law, medicine, economics, politics, women's studies, religion, sociology, sexuality, film, popular culture, public health, nonfiction, American and world history, business, gender, media, education, crime, race, technology, performing arts, family, social work, social mores, pornography, the military, tourism, child labor, and more. It is targeted to the general reader, who will gain useful insight into the human race through time via its sex industry and prostitution.

An introduction overviews the scope of prostitution from the earliest historical records, including the Bible. User-friendly lists that are alphabetically and topically arranged help the reader find entries of interest, as does the comprehensive index. A chronology proffers significant dates related to the topic. Each entry is signed and has suggestions for further reading. Sample entries: Abolition; Actresses; Augustine, Saint; Barr, Candy; Bible; Camp Followers; Chamberlain-Kahn Bill of 1918; Child Prostitution; Clothing, Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866, and 1869; Crime; Debby Doesn't Do It for Free; Dickens, Charles; Devadasi; Entrapment; Fallen Woman Trope; Feminism; Films, Cult; Five Points; Free Love; Geisha; Globalization; Guidebooks; Hip-Hop; HIV/AIDS and the Prostitution Rights Movement; Human Rights; Incest; Internet; Jack the Ripper; Kama Sutra; League of Nations; Lulu; Male Stripping; Mann Act; Mayhew, Henry; Memoirs; Migration and Mobility; Nazi Germany; Poetry; Purity Movements; R&R; Religion; Salvation Army; Scapegoating; Slang; Storyville; Temporary Marriage; Unions; Venice; Window Prostitution.

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Contents

• CONTENTS: vii
• Alphabetical List of Entries: ix
• Topical List of Entries: xv
• Appendixes of Primary Resources: 557
• Selected Bibliography: 703
• Index: 753
• About the Editor Advisors and Contributors: 773

About the author

Melissa Hope Ditmore is the coordinator and founder of the Trafficked Persons Rights Project, a consultant on trafficking, and a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Volume 1; Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Melissa Hope Ditmore, ISBN 0313329680, 9780313329685
• Editor: Melissa Hope Ditmore
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
• ISBN: 0313329680, 9780313329685
• Length: 782 pages