Ms Jackie West
BA (University of Exeter), MA (University of Exeter)
Office: 3G3, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7505
Email: jackie.west@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests
- The sociology of sexuality and economic sociology
- The sex industry
- Prostitution and social policy
- Young people and social identities
- Gender and employment
Current Research
- From deviance to commercial entertainment: gambling and prostitution
- Local regimes of regulation in gambling and the sex industry: the UK, USA, the Netherlands and Australasia
- Retheorising gender, sexuality and work
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: The Sociology of Sexuality
Postgraduate: The Politics of Sex
Recent Publications
- 'New deals in gambling: global markets and local regimes of regulation' (with Terry Austrin), in L. Beukema & J. Carillo (eds), Globalism/Localism at Work, Elsevier, 2004
- Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation, Macmillan 1999 (co-edited with Minghua Zhao)
- '(Not) talking about sex: youth, identity and sexuality', Sociological Review 1999: 47,3:525-47
- 'Prostitution: collectives and the politics of regulation', Gender, Work and Organization 2000: 7, 2,106-18
- 'From work as sex to sex as work: networks, 'others' and occupations in the analysis of work', Gender, Work and Organization 2002: 9, 5, 482-503 (with Terry Austrin)