ISBN:
1848134347
,
1848134339
,
9781848134348
,
9781848134331
,
9781848134355
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 275 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Sex Work Matters : Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry
DDC:
306.74
Keywords:
Prostitution Social aspects
;
Sex-oriented businesses Social aspects
;
Prostitutes Social conditions
;
Prostitutes -- Social conditions
;
Prostitution -- Social aspects
;
Sex-oriented businesses -- Social aspects
Abstract:
Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry
Description / Table of Contents:
About the editors; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Foreword; Note; Introduction: Beyond the Sex in Sex Work; Part A - Beyond Divides: New Frameworks for Understanding the Sex Industry; 1 Sex Work Now: What the Blurring of Boundaries around the Sex Industry Means for Sex Work, Research, and Activism; 2 The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research; 3 The Meaning of the 'Whore': How Feminist Theories on Prostitution Shape Research on Female Sex Workers; Part B - Managing Multiple Roles; 4 To Love, Honor, and Strip: An Investigation of Exotic Dancer Romantic Relationships
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution6 enforced ab/normalcy: the sex worker hijras and the (re)appropriation of s/he identity; Part C - Money and Sex; 7 Let's Talk About Money; 8 Show Me the Money: A Sex Worker Reflects on Research into the Sex Industry; 9 Selling Sex: Women's Participation in the Sex Industry; Part D - Sex Work and the State; 10 Pimping the Pueblo: State-regulated Commercial Sex in Neoliberal Mexico; 11 Deviant Girls, Small-scale Entrepreneurs, and the Regulation of German Sex Workers; 12 Sex Work, Communities, and Public Policy in the UK
Description / Table of Contents:
Part E - Organizing Beyond Divides13 Sex Workers' Rights Activism in Europe: Orientations from Brussels; 14 Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries in Sex Work Activism and Research; Contributing authors; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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