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The Symbolic Representation of Gender: A Discursive Approach . By Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier. Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014. 225 pp. $119.95 hardcover.

collecting data to satisfy funders’ requirements and supporting the professionalization of grant-writing staff. The many different ways in which claims-making activities are advanced in the midst of all these other demanding tasks shed light on the strategic and political acumen of those leading these organizations. By producing research to “influence and inform the public and policy makers” (96), they bolster their expert status and find ways of legitimately carrying out policy advocacy through individual and permitted lobbying initiatives. The breadth of issues presented in both the collection and the monograph and the ways in which negotiations of sex work and sex work politics are explored in their complexity provide a valuable addition in this field of study. They invite us to think beyond reductionist representations and understandings of sex work and to investigate more carefully the multifariousness of its dimensions and of the lives of those variously involved in it. It should be noted that the contexts analyzed in these works, with the exception of Peru and, to a certain extent, Brazil, are the ones that tend to be commonly explored and presented in international research and publications on sex work. Rather than being a limitation of the books, this reveals the uneven expansion of scholarship in sex work and prostitution studies across the globe. It is works like these that build and give visibility to a subject of research that remains itself too often stigmatized, in and beyond academia.