First published in 2000, focusing on the geographies of female prostitution in Western societies, this book explores the nature of sites of sex work and the ways they shape the lives of prostitutes (and their clients).

Introduction. 1. Prostitution, Sex Work and Power. 2. Sexuality and Space: The Moral Geography of Heterosex. 3. Immoral Geographies: The Prostitute as an Urban 'Other'. 4. Space, Law and Public Order: Policing the Spaces of Prostitution. 5. Community Protest, Citizenship and the Paranoid Public. 6. Sites of Sex Work, Spaces of Resistance? 7. Conclusion.