The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform, 1st ed. 2016
Governing Loose Women

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 others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.

1. Governing Loose Women: The New Politics of Prostitution
2. States of Anxiety: Prostitution Reform as a Symptom of European Integration
3. Dutch Pragmatism and the Difficulties of Professionalizing Prostitution
4. Legislating Peace for Women: Sweden ' 's Sex Purchase Act
5. German Consensus for Sex Work, Compromise Over Sex Business
6. Finland on the Fence: Abolitionist Compromise at the Edge of Europe
7. Seeing Transnational Problems Through National Lenses
8. The Truly Trafficked Woman, and Other Globalization Anxieties
9. Methodological Afterword: Identity Work and the Interviewer

Greggor Mattson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College, USA.