-- Annegret Staiger is Associate Professor of Sociology at Clarkson University. Her first monograph, Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multicultural Metropolis , was published with Stanford University Press in 2006. -- The topic is important because it provides fascinating insight into the ramifications of differences in cultural responses to issues of gender, money, labor, and criminal justice. The work is more than a compare and contrast between puritanical America and sexually-liberalized Germany, however, ...
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-- Annegret Staiger is Associate Professor of Sociology at Clarkson University. Her first monograph, Learning Difference: Race and Schooling in the Multicultural Metropolis , was published with Stanford University Press in 2006. -- The topic is important because it provides fascinating insight into the ramifications of differences in cultural responses to issues of gender, money, labor, and criminal justice. The work is more than a compare and contrast between puritanical America and sexually-liberalized Germany, however, as it investigates with real empathy and clarity the moral, emotional, and legal complexities inherent for all stakeholders in legalized prostitution. -- Simply stated, this is a fantastic book. It incorporates scholarship with a light hand and clear language but primarily focuses on narrative and reads very much like creative nonfiction of the highest order. In doing so, it doesn't oversimplify the material for readers and thereby treats both topic and audience with dignity and respect. There is no point at which this work tips into the tawdry, yet it is always written with a compelling narrative style that speeds the reader forward despite the complex relationships and situations being presented. -- The audience is anthropologists working on Europe and the EU, gender, migration, sexuality studies, and criminal justice. The work would also appeal to scholars as well as graduate students and especially undergraduate students working in women's studies, human trafficking, critical race theory, and sex in a global perspective/sex and commerce. A particularly strong marketing possibility would be the Univeristy of Wisconsin System Women's and Gender Studies Consortium, which has a yearly conference and which organizes approximately 300 courses to over 8,000 students yearly. (https: //consortium.gws.wisc.edu/what-is-the-wgsc/)
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