Introduction : prostitution, women's movements and democratic politics / Joyce Outshoorn -- The women's movement and prostitution politics in Australia / Barbara Sullivan -- Taxes, rights and regimentation : discourses on prostitution in Austria / Birgit Sauer -- Prostitution policies in Britain, 1982-2002 / Johanna Kantola and Judith Squires -- Prostitution as public nuisance : prostitution policy in Canada / Leslie Ann Jeffrey -- Towards a new prohibitionism? State feminism, women's movements and prostitution policies in Finland / Anne Maria Holli -- Prostitute movements face elite apathy and gender-biased universalism in France / Amy G. Mazur -- The politics of prostitution and trafficking of women in Israel / Delila Amir and Mencahem Amir -- Italy : the never-ending debate / Daniela Danna -- Voluntary and forced prostitution : the 'realistic approach' of the Netherlands / Joyce Outshoorn -- State feminism and central state debates on prostitution in post-authoritarian Spain / Celia Valiente -- Criminalising the john - a Swedish gender model? / Yvonne Svanström -- The invisible issue : prostitution and trafficking of women and girls in the United States / Dorothy McBride Stetson -- Comparative prostitution politics and the case for state feminism / Joyce Outshoorn.