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Sexual commerce
Brents, Jackson and Hausbeck, The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland, NY: Routledge, 2010.

Sahl, Brents and Jackson, "AVN Adult Entertainment Expo Report 2009 Summary of Survey Results,".

Brents and Teela Sanders, “The Mainstreaming of the Sex industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence,”  Journal of Law & Society 37:1, 2010.

Brents, Barbara G. and Kathryn Hausbeck, “Sex Work Now: What the Blurring Boundaries around the Sex Industry Mean for Sex Work, Research and Activism” in Sex Work Matters: Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry. Melissa Hope Ditmore, Antonia Levy, Alys Willman eds. London: Zed Books, forthcoming August 2010.

Hausbeck and Brents, “Inside Nevada’s Brothel System,” in Ron Weitzer, ed., Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry. NY: Routledge, 2009.

Hausbeck and Brents, “McDonaldization of the Sex Industries: The Business of Sex,” in George Ritzer, ed., McDonaldization: The Reader, Pine Forge Press, Feb. 2009.

Brents, "Sexual Politics from Barnard to Las Vegas,” The Communication Review, 11(3): 237–246, 2008

Brents and Hausbeck, "Marketing Sex: US Legal Brothels and Late Capitalist Consumption," Sexualities 10(4):425-439, 2007.

Brents and Hausbeck, “Violence and Legalized Brothel Prostitution in Nevada: Examining Safety, Risk and Prostitution Policy,”  Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20(3):270-295, 2005.

Brents and Hausbeck, “State Sanctioned Sex: Negotiating Formal and Informal Regulations in Nevada Brothels,” Sociological Perspectives 44(3):307-332, 2001.

Hausbeck and Brents, “Prostitution–Nevada,” in the Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior, Vol 3 Sexual Deviance, edited by Nanette Davis and Gilbert Geis, Taylor and Francis 2000.

Urban sociology
Futrell, Batson, Brents, Dassopoulos, Nicholas, Salvaggio & Griffith, “Las Vegas Metropolitan Area Social Survey Highlights,” Report prepared for the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Commission on a social sustainability survey of the Las Vegas Valley.  April 2010.

Futrell, Brents, Batson, Dassopoulos, Nicholas, Salvaggio & Griffith, “Focus Group Findings,” Report prepared for the City of Las Vegas ‘Your City Your Way’ Initiative, January 2010. 
 
Brents, Barbara G.  “Housing Policy in Nevada.” pp. 215-229 in Dennis Soden and Eric Herzik, (eds.), Towards 2000: Public Policy in Nevada, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing 1997.
Politics, violence and social movements
Simi, Pete and Barbara G. Brents “An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth” pp. 185-202 in David Brotherton and Michael Flynn, eds., Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment, Columbia University Press, 2008.
Brents and Deo Mshigeni, “Terrorism in Context: Race, Religion, Party and Violent Conflict in Zanzibar,” The American Sociologist,30(2):60-74, 2005.

Futrell, Robert and Barb Brents “Protest as Terrorism: The Potential for Violent Anti-Nuclear Activism,” American Behavioral Scientist. 1 February 2003, 46(6): 745-765(21).

Brents, Barbara G., “Dale Carnegie, The Carpenters, and Cambodia” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 27(4):435-460, January 1999.

Brents, Barbara G. and Melissa Monson, “White Washing the Strip: Confonting White Privilege in Las Vegas,” in Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, Nelson Rodrigues, and Ronald Chennault (eds.), White Reign: Learning and Deploying Whiteness, St. Martin's Press 1998.


Politics and social policy
Brents, Barbara G., "Class Political Organizing and Welfare Capitalism," Critical Sociology, 19(1):69-101, 1992.

Jenkins, J. Craig and Barbara G. Brents, "Capitalists and Social Security: What Did They Really Want? A Reply to Amenta and Parikh," American Sociological Review, 56(1):129-132, 1991.

Jenkins, J. Craig and Barbara G. Brents, "Social Protest, Hegemonic Competition and Social Reform: The Political Origins of the American Welfare State," American Sociological Review, 54(6):891-909, 1989.

Brents, Barbara G., "Policy Intellectuals, Class Struggle and the Construction of Old Age: The Creation of the Social Security Act of 1935," Social Science and Medicine, 23(12):1251-1260, 1986.

Brents, Barbara G., "Capitalism, Corporate Liberalism and Social Policy: The Origins of the Social Security Act of 1935," Mid-American Review of Sociology, 9(1):23-40, 1984.
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Barb Brents studies sexuality, gender and politics in market culture. 

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Department of Sociology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5033
barb.brents@unlv.edu
702-895-3322

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