Of Vice and Women: Shades of Prostitution Book

	Foreword	9
	Author's Introduction	13
1	Prostitution and Control - Theoretical Approaches	16
1.1	A Functionalist Perspective	16
1.2	A Feminist Perspective	19
1.3	A Social Interactionist/Constructionist Perspective	23
2	Prostitution in Helsinki - Issues and Data	47
2.1	The Nature of Prostitution Control	47
2.2	The Relativity of Prostitution	47
2.3	Professionalism - Amateurism	48
2.4	Controlling Prostitution - Controlling Women	49
2.5	Interrogation Records of the Vice Police	50
2.6	The Vagrancy Register	51
2.7	Criminal Police Information on Procuring	51
2.8	ALKO's Information About Restaurant Prostitution	52
2.9	Interviews With Key Informants	52
2.10	Interviews With Prostitutes	53
2.11	Observations at Restaurants	54
3	Controlling Prostitution	55
3.1	A Historical Review	55
3.2	The 1936 Vagrancy Act and Legal Criteria	56
3.3	Criticisms Against the Vagrancy Act	60
3.4	Prostitution as a Societal Problem	61
3.5	Developments Within Vagrancy Control	66
3.6	Background Information About the Prostitutes	68
4	Prostitution Environments: Streets, Restaurants and Youth Hang-Outs	74
4.2	The Street as Prostitution Milieu	75
4.3	Restaurants as Prostitution Milieu	86
4.4	Prostitution as a Youth Problem	96
5	Newer Prostitution Environments	114
5.1	Unemployed, Homeless Women With Alcohol Problems	115
5.2	Call-Girls and Hotel Prostitutes in Earlier Decades	121
5.3	Call-Girls and Hotel Prostitutes in the 1980s	124
6	Amateurs and Professionals	146
6.1	Prostitution as Social Relations	146
6.2	Prostitution as Identity	156
6.3	Prostitution as Occupational Ideology	162
6.4	Prostitution as Subculture	166
7	Controlling Prostitution - Controlling Women: Conclusions	167
7.1	Prostitution and Female Sexuality	169
7.2	Prostitution and Female Drinking	170
7.3	Prostitution and Family Life	171
7.4	Prostitution and Poverty	173
	References	176