Isabel Crowhurst

My research is concerned with the shifting and contested knowledge produced around non-normative sexual practices and intimate lives and how they are negotiated and made sense of in everyday lived experiences. I have explored these aspects in two strands of research, the first on the regulation and governance of commercial sex, and the second on the changing nature of intimate citizenship regimes in Europe.

In my more recent work I strive to articulate the connections between sexual and economic forms of exclusion and and how social, sexual and economic justice need to be sought out together.

Recent publications include:

Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. and James-Hawkins, L. (Eds.), Difficult Conversations. Routledge.

Crowhurst, I., Dewey, S. and Izugbara, C., (2021). Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution Contested Engagements in Africa, the Americas and Europe. Routledge.

Roseneil, S., Crowhurst, I., Hellesund, T., Santos, AC. and Stoilova, M., (2020). The Tenacity of the Couple Norm. Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe. UCL Press.