Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale is a new and exciting series emphasising innovative work on the complexities of sex for sale, its practices, the policies designed to regulate it and their effects. It covers both recent and historical developments with an aim to explore multidisciplinary and international perspectives, expand theoretical approaches, and analyse matters which are the subject of controversy and debate in this field.

We welcome submissions of single and co-authored books, as well as edited collections that address sex for sale, its practices and regulation, including those with a focus on: comparative analysis; multi-scalar approaches; methodological perspectives; cultural and economic contexts; and the policies concerned with the regulation of sex for sale.

This series emerges from, and intends to expand the work of the European Concerted Research COST Action IS1209 ‘Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance (ProsPol)’, a European network funded under Horizon 2020 (www.prospol.eu).

Series Editors:

Isabel Crowhurst is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. Her research lies at the intersection of sociology, criminology, and critical social policy and centres on the regulation, social control, and lived experiences of commercial sex practices and of intimacy. She has researched and published on the regulation of commercial sex and of intimate citizenship in contemporary Europe.

Rebecca Pates, Professor of Political Theory at Leipzig University and member of the Academia Europae, has managed a number of research grants on the governmentality of sex work and on trafficking for sexual exploitation,　funded by the EU and the German Research Council. Her most recent research is on the malleability of nationalism in the German context.　

May-Len Skilbrei is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She works within the fields of criminology, gender studies, and sociology of law, and does research on the formulation and implementation of legislation and welfare policies on commercial sex and human trafficking nationally and regionally (the Nordic region), as well as on criminal justice approaches to sexual violence. She has published broadly on these topics.