Editorial note: From now on I will only post bibliographies instead of one-text-one-entry, because this has been labor intensive, while being unrewarding. For any additions, feel free to comment below. *** Armstrong, Lynzi, and Gillian Abel. Sex Work and the New Zealand Model Decriminalisation and Social Change. Bristol University Press, 2020. Åsman, Susanne. Bombay Going: Nepali Migrant Sex Workers in an Anti-Trafficking Era. Lexington Books, 2018. Biancani, Francesca. Sex Work in Colonial Egypt: Women, Modernity and the Global Economy. I. B. Tauris, 2018. Bjønness, Jeanett, et al., editors ..read more

Lazarus, Lisa, Nicole Herpai, Daria Pavlova, Maureen A. Murney, Olga Balakireva, Tatiana Tarasova, Leigh McClarty, u. a. 2022. „Exploring the impact of military conflict on sex work in Ukraine: Women’s experiences of economic burden“. Global Public Health 0 (0): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2092187. Abstract Little is known about the impact of military conflict on sex work from the perspective of sex workers. We attempt to explore the meaning of conflict on sex work by asking women about the changes that they have experienced in their lives and work since the beginning of t ..read more

Gheorghiu, I. & Ham, J. (2022). Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews. The British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac003 Abstract This article explores the concept of biographical work as a sustained pursuit during interviews with persons engaging in stigmatized and criminalized work. Based on interviews with women engaging in sex work and intimate economies in Hong Kong, the article examines the research interview as an interactional and institutional encounter where interviewer and interviewee jointly create meaning and ..read more

Dolinsek, Sonja, und Siobhán Hearne. „Introduction: prostitution in twentieth century Europe“. European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 29, Nr. 2 (2022): 121–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2022.2029361. (Free) Azara, Liliosa. „The new face of Italian prostitution in the aftermath of the Merlin Law: forms, debate and repression“. European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 29, Nr. 2 (2022): 268–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2021.2018405. Dolinsek, Sonja. „Tensions of abolitionism during the negotiation of the 1949 ‘Convention for the Suppression of the Tr ..read more

Murphy, Doris. „Walking, Talking, Imagining: Ethical Engagement with Sex Workers“. Ethics and Social Welfare 0, Nr. 0 (7. February 2022): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2022.2033809. Abstract This article describes a walking interview with a sex worker who is an advocate for sex worker rights in Ireland. Walking interviews have been proposed as a biographical method which can be used to explore the relationship between personal concerns and public questions, and the method is characterised by mobile, relational and embodied practice (O’Neill and Roberts [2019. Walking Methods: Research ..read more

Rubio Grundell, Lucrecia. „The EU’s Approach to Prostitution: Explaining the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of the EP’s Neo-Abolitionist Turn“. European Journal of Women’s Studies 28, 4 ( 2021): 425–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506821994611. Abstract The aim of this article is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the European Union’s neo-abolitionist approach to prostitution, drawing on the literature that addresses the global rise of neo-abolitionism and using key concepts developed by the gendered approaches to the European Union in order to adapt them to the particular context of the European Union. To ..read more

Boglárka Fedorkó, Luca Stevenson & P. G. Macioti (2021) Sex workers on the frontline: An abridged version of the original ICRSE report: ‘The role of sex worker rights groups in providing support during the COVID-19 crisis in Europe’, Global Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1945124 Abstract Sex workers in Europe have been dramatically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated measures. Ignored by most governments, excluded from social and economic measures put in place to protect other workers, sex workers were left to fend for themselves. The ar ..read more

Attwood, Rachael. „A very un-English predicament: ‘The White Slave Traffic’ and the construction of national identity in the suffragist and socialist movements’ coverage of the 1912 Criminal Law Amendment Bill“. National Identities (2021): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2021.1895096. Abstract The measure promoted as England’s first law against sex trafficking, the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, journeyed through Parliament in 1912. Amid mounting extra-parliamentary protest over votes for women, workers’ rights, and Home Rule for Ireland, the country’s suffrage and socialist groups chose ..read more

Bateman, Victoria. „How Decriminalisation Reduces Harm Within and Beyond Sex Work: Sex Work Abolitionism as the “Cult of Female Modesty” in Feminist Form“. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-021-00612-8. Abstract Background Sex work has a long history and takes different forms, but the associated precarity and danger, particularly where poorer women and minorities are concerned, is undeniable. There is growing evidence that decriminalisation reduces harm, and, indeed, it is the policy approach favoured by sex worker groups. Despite this, many feminists i ..read more

Blanchette, Thaddeus; Da Silva, Ana P.; Camargo, Gustavo. 2021. ““I Will Not Be Dona Maria”: Rethinking Exploitation and Objectification in the Context of Work and Sex Work” Soc. Sci. 10, no. 6: 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060204 Abstract In many feminist and sociological accounts of sex work, the concept of exploitation resides on the subjacent notion of objectification, codified in the omnipresent belief that the sex worker sells their body. Sexual objectification supposedly indicates the peculiar and particular effect that sex work is supposed to have on the bodies of human beings ..read more