Managed zones for sex workers in Liverpool

Contemporary proposals, Victorian parallels

Bibliographic Data

ID8964152
AuthorsPhilip Howell (0000-0002-4673-6422, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), David Beckingham (0000-0003-4721-1705, University of Cambridge), Francesca Moore (0000-0002-6487-0502, University of Cambridge)
Year2008
Volume33
Issue2
Pages233-250
Publication date2008-01-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00292.x
OpenAlexW1971650773
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited38

Recent proposals to establish a ‘managed zone’ for female street sex workers in Liverpool are placed in this paper in historical and geographical context. Liverpool is shown to be an exemplar of a late Victorian municipal management of prostitution that was just as firmly committed to the containment and ‘localisation’ of sex work. This model is contrasted with alternative municipal strategies, and set within a national legislative agenda increasingly hostile to tolerance and regulation. The contours of this governmental regulation of commercial sexuality are explored in some detail here, but this historical geography is also offered as a way of informing contemporary concerns, cautioning as it does against averring either the novelty or the progressiveness of contemporary policies on the zoning of sex work

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Economics · Human sexuality · Legislature · Novelty · Operations management · Parallels · Political science · Population · Research methodology · Sex work · Sex workers · Sociology · Work (physics · Zoning · Demography · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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