Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform

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

• 1. Governing Loose Women: The New Politics of Prostitution2. States of Anxiety: Prostitution Reform as a Symptom of European Integration3. Dutch Pragmatism and the Difficulties of Professionalizing Prostitution4. Legislating Peace for Women: Sweden ' 's Sex Purchase Act5. German Consensus for Sex Work, Compromise Over Sex Business6. Finland on the Fence: Abolitionist Compromise at the Edge of Europe7. Seeing Transnational Problems Through National Lenses8. The Truly Trafficked Woman, and Other Globalization Anxieties9. Methodological Afterword: Identity Work and the Interviewer

“This work will likely be read by scholars interested in prostitution specifically and sexuality more broadly, where Mattson succeeds best is in taking a specific social problem and showing how it encapsulates cultural dynamics of an institutional nature. … Mattson’s use of key informant interviews provides a specific and substantial contribution to our understanding of how social problems are articulated ‘in the trenches’ by activists and bureaucrats.” (Bayliss J. Camp, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 122 (4), January, 2017)