Voicing Consent Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cross-National Contexts

“
Voicing Consent
is both empirically rich and theoretically significant. ... . At 270 pages, the book is rigorous, accessible, and open access, making it available to activists, scholars, and sex workers alike. …
Voicing Consent: Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in CrossNational Contexts
is a landmark contribution that challenges narrow legal and feminist framings of sexual violence while advancing theoretical understandings of consent and justice.” (Michelle Lesley Annett, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, 2025)

Teela Sanders
 is Professor of Criminology and currently Dean for Research and Enterprise for the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the University of Leicester, UK.

Jane Scoular 
is Professor of Law University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and is an internationally recognised scholar whose work is a primary reference in the field of the legal regulation of commercial sex.  

Barbara G. Brents
 is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.

Susie Balderston
 was Research Fellow in the Law School at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Gillian Abel 
is a public health academic at the Department of Population Health, University of Otago, New Zealand with over 20 years’ experience in the field of sex work research.