https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Policing-Prostitution https://booksandideas.net/Policing-Prostitution 2023-09-07T08:31:42Z text/html en Anaïk Purenne Society organized crime prostitution police Cairn.info <p>In France, the law is rather vague regarding the meaning of prostitution. The job of defining it is often left to the police, but they focus on street prostitution, that of the lower classes, paying barely any attention to the often luxurious type of prostitution used by the upper classes.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Prostitution-and-Statebuilding https://booksandideas.net/Prostitution-and-Statebuilding 2019-04-18T06:00:00Z text/html en Yunyun Zhou International History China state prostitution Books and ideas originals <p>Elizabeth Remick's study uncovers gender relationships in early 20<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century China and investigates an often-neglected aspect of prostitution: its role in the formation of modern local-states.</p>