Prior to becoming a researcher, Coy worked for several years with sexually exploited girls and women. She has published a number of articles and book chapters on the sex industry, including links between local authority care and sexual exploitation, women's experiences of selling sex and men's motivations for buying sex. More recently Coy has focused on developing a gendered analysis of sexualised popular culture, including how this might be addressed in popular approaches and everyday practice with young people.[2]
Bibliography
Books
Coy, Maddy (2012). Prostitution, harm and gender inequality: theory, research and policy. Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN9781409405450.
Chapters in books
Coy, Maddy (2012), "Introduction: Prostitution, harm and gender inequality", in Coy, Maddy (ed.), Prostitution, harm and gender inequality: theory, research and policy, Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, pp. 1–12, ISBN9781409405450.
Coy, Maddy (2012), "'I am a person too': women's accounts and images about body and self in prostitution", in Coy, Maddy (ed.), Prostitution, harm and gender inequality: theory, research and policy, Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, pp. 103–120, ISBN9781409405450.
Coy, Maddy; Kelly, Liz; Horvath, Miranda A.H. (2012), "Troubling notions of male entitlement: men consuming, boasting and confessing about paying for sex", in Coy, Maddy (ed.), Prostitution, harm and gender inequality: theory, research and policy, Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, pp. 121–140, ISBN9781409405450.
Coy, Maddy; Wakeling, Josephine; Garner, Maria (2012), "Selling sex sells: representations of prostitution and the sex industry in sexualised popular culture as symbolic violence", in Coy, Maddy (ed.), Prostitution, harm and gender inequality: theory, research and policy, Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, pp. 181–198, ISBN9781409405450.
Coy, Maddy (2012), "This body which is not mine: the notion of the habit body, prostitution and (dis)embodiment", in Gonzalez-Arnal, Stella; Jagger, Gill; Lennon, Kathleen (eds.), Embodied selves, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101–118, ISBN9781137283696.
Coy, Maddy (2013), "Children, childhood and sexualised popular culture", in Wild, Jim (ed.), Exploiting childhood: how fast food, material obsession and porn culture are creating new forms of child abuse, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, pp. 149–163, ISBN9780857007421.
Coy, Maddy; Thiara, Ravi K. (2014), "'Boys think girls are toys': sexual exploitation and young people", in Ellis, Jane; Thiara, Ravi K. (eds.), Preventing violence against women and girls: educational work with children and young people, Bristol, UK Chicago, Illinois, USA: Policy Press, pp. 181–205, ISBN9781447307310.
Coy, Maddy; Kelly, Liz; Dustin, Holly (2015), "A feminist "epistemic community" reshaping public policy: a case study of the End Violence Against Women Coalition", in Johnson, Holly; Fisher, Bonnie S.; Jaquier, Véronique (eds.), Critical issues on violence against women: international perspectives and promising strategies, London: Routledge, pp. 244–257, ISBN9781135006037.
Journal articles
Coy, Maddy (December 2006). "This morning I'm a researcher, this afternoon I'm an outreach worker: ethical dilemmas in practitioner research". International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 9 (5): 419–431. doi:10.1080/13645570601076785. S2CID143319993.
Coy, Maddy (July 2009). "'Moved around like bags of rubbish nobody wants': how multiple placement moves can make young women vulnerable to sexual exploitation". Child Abuse Review. 18 (4): 254–266. doi:10.1002/car.1064.
Coy, Maddy (November 2009). "Milkshakes, lady lumps and growing up to want boobies: how the sexualisation of popular culture limits girls' horizons". Child Abuse Review. 18 (6): 372–383. doi:10.1002/car.1094.
Coy, Maddy (November 2010). "A brave new world: the strip club ban in Iceland and meanings for gender equality (views, events, and debates)". Gender & Development. 18 (3). Liz Cooke (editor): 539–553. doi:10.1080/13552074.2010.521994. S2CID145065277.
Coy, Maddy; Garner, Maria; Wakeling, Josephine (September 2011). "Selling sex sells: representations of prostitution and the sex industry in sexualised popular culture as symbolic violence". Women's Studies International Forum. 34 (5): 441–448. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2011.05.008.
Coy, Maddy; Garner, Maria (May 2012). "Definitions, discourses and dilemmas: policy and academic engagement with the sexualisation of popular culture". Gender and Education. 24 (3): 285–301. doi:10.1080/09540253.2012.667793. S2CID145311311.
Coy, Maddy; Scott, Emma; Tweedale, Ruth; Perks, Katherine (January 2015). "'It's like going through the abuse again': domestic violence and women and children's (un)safety in private law contact proceedings". Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 37 (1): 53–69. doi:10.1080/09649069.2015.1004863. S2CID144158549.
Papers
For the CWASU
Coy, Maddy; Kelly, Liz; Horvarth, Miranda (2007). 'It's just like going to the supermarket': men buying sex in East London: report for Safe Exit Tower Hamlets. London: Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU), London Metropolitan University for Rape Crisis Network Europe. ISBN9780954480356. Pdf.
^Ellis, Jane; Thiara, Ravi K. (2014), "Notes on contributors", in Ellis, Jane; Thiara, Ravi K. (eds.), Preventing violence against women and girls: educational work with children and young people, Bristol, UK Chicago, Illinois, USA: Policy Press, p. ix, ISBN9781447307310.