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Student Sex Work

International Perspectives and Implications for Policy and Practice

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Includes data from studies in Amsterdam, UK, Australia and the USA

  • Examines the topic of Higher Education students’ participation in sex work

  • Provides significant theoretical, methodological and policy and practice contributions within sex work studies

Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Studies (PASWS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • Teela Sanders, Debbie Jones
    Pages 1-11
  3. Activism, Ideology and Exclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. The Student Sex Work Project: Methods, Ethics, and Activism

      • Debbie Jones, Tracey Sagar
      Pages 15-41
  4. Motivations and Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Student Sex Work in The Netherlands: Motivations and the Impact of Stigma

      • Marije van Stempvoort, Marie-Louise Janssen
      Pages 149-177
    3. Male Sex Workers as Students

      • John Scott, Navin Kumar
      Pages 201-228
  5. University Policy and Service Delivery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
    2. Educating Universities: Understanding and Responding to Student Sex Workers

      • Gaynor Trueman, Teela Sanders, Jessica Hyer Griffin
      Pages 231-256
    3. Counselling Student Sex Workers: A Solution-Focused Approach

      • Sam Geuens, Geert Lefevere
      Pages 285-306
    4. Where Do We Go from Here?

      • Debbie Jones, Teela Sanders
      Pages 307-322
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 323-336

About this book

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work. It brings together experienced researchers, activists, practitioners, early career researchers and those with lived experience of doing sex work in the university setting from across the globe.

The book addresses three core areas: Activism, Ideology and Exclusion; Motivations and Experiences; and University Policy, Practice and Service Delivery. This collection represents significant theoretical, methodological and policy and practice contributions within sex work studies. These new perspectives contribute to our existing knowledge, introduce new directions for scholarship and prompt new and exciting questions about how higher education students’ participation in sex work can be researched, understood and responded to in an ethical, non-stigmatising approach. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and service providers and given the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters, the book has a cross-disciplinary appeal.

Keywords

  • Activism and Sex Work
  • Sex and Higher Education
  • prostitution
  • stigma and sex work
  • sexual misconduct
  • sex worker voices
  • research methods sociology
  • criminalisation of sex work
  • decriminalisation of sex work

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Criminology, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

    Debbie Jones

  • School of Criminology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Teela Sanders

About the editors

Debbie Jones is Professor of Criminology and currently the School Education Lead for the School of Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK. Debbie was the project manager and co-principal investigator of The Student Sex Work Project. Debbie has an interest in how methodological innovations and teaching play a role of public criminology towards supporting change for marginalised groups.

Teela Sanders is Professor of Criminology and currently Dean for Research and Enterprise for the College of Social Sciences Arts and Humanities at the University of Leicester, UK. She is a leading international scholar in research on the intersections between gender, regulation, governance and crime, specifically in the sex industry. Sanders has written 8 books, edited 10, and has over 60 peer reviewed journal articles, based on research projects funded from major research councils. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Student Sex Work

  • Book Subtitle: International Perspectives and Implications for Policy and Practice

  • Editors: Debbie Jones, Teela Sanders

  • Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07777-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07776-0Published: 28 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07779-1Due: 12 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07777-7Published: 27 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2731-376X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-3778

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 336

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Crime and Society, Research Methods in Criminology, Gender Studies, Social Policy, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Education

Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-07777-7
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)