The Business of Pleasure
A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of Europe
First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in Belgium
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Specificaties
ISBN/EAN | 9789462704107 |
Auteur | Elwin Hofman |
Uitgever | Universitaire Pers Leuven |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 182 |
Lengte | 236.0 mm |
Breedte | 159.0 mm |
Elwin Hofman is a cultural historian and writer. He teaches at Utrecht University and has (co)authored several books on cultural history, including a history of homosexuality in Belgium. Magaly Rodríguez García is an authority on the history of international labour organisations and subaltern history. She is a professor at KU Leuven and collaborates with Belgian and foreign colleagues on projects regarding, inter alia, sex work and prostitution policy at the local, national and supranational levels. In the context of oral history projects, she became closely involved with advocacy groups for vulnerable persons such as sex workers and homeless people. Pieter Vanhees is a social historian and has researched the history of prostitution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at KU Leuven.