An Interdisciplinary History of Prostitution KU Leuven
The research project on the history of sex work seeks to deconstruct the sociospatial construction of prostitution as an archetypal urban phenomenon. A long-term, comparative and interdisciplinary approach informed by subaltern theory and human geography is employed to personalize the sex industry and to identify the growth and dislocation of vice zones or liminal spaces in relation to urban and (semi-)rural heteronormativities. Belgium is ...