ISBN:
9780415704557
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (319 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Sex Work
DDC:
306.74
Abstract:
Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices, meanings and embodiments in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new insights into how gender, sex, power, crime, work, migration, space/place, health and intimacy are understood in the context of commercia
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Being, thinking and doing 'queer' in debates about commercial sex; Queering sex work: theories, practices, methodologies; Structure of the book; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Part I: Sex, work and queer interventions; 2. Queer in/and sexual economies; Introduction; The political economy of commercial (hetero)sex; Queer/ing sexual economies; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Sex, work, queerly: identity, authenticity and laboured performanceIntroduction: sex work, queerly; Gay for pay, queerly; Gay-not-for-pay: discourses of non-work; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. After the image: labour in pornography; Introduction: invisible labour; Positions on porn; Positions as perspectives; Disciplinary genealogies; Conclusion: after the image; Notes; References; 5. 'Serving it': werq queers our sex, ex queers our work; References; 6. Beyond the stigma: the Asian sex worker as First World saviour; Introduction; Transnational literature and queer of colour analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
The queer ancestor in This Place Called AbsenceThe entrepreneurial sex worker in Platform; Acknowledgements; Note; References; Part II: Queer embodiments, identities, intersections; 7. Critical femininities, fluid sexualities and queer temporalities: erotic performers on objectification, femmephobia and oppression; Introduction; Methodology: making community; Combating oppression: organising, strategising and mobilising change; Peer education, skill sharing and consciousness raising; Too much make-up? Glamour, beauty, excess and femmephobia; Transgression, armour, camp: critical femininities
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Resisting discourses of objectification: ownership, boundaries and representationSecurity guards, sarcasm and standing up for oneself: negotiating boundaries; 'Every man's fantasy is a lie': taste, desire, diversity; Muscles, flexibility, athleticism: inverting gender norms and stereotypes; Straight for pay? Fluid identities and queer effects; 'Stripper time', queer temporalities and interclass contact; Conclusion: erotic labour as queer; References; 8. Being paid to be in pain: the experiences of a professional submissive; Introduction; Why I do what I do; Conflating perception and reality
Description / Table of Contents:
The gaps in the argument and the problem of the 'other'Closing the gap; Notes; References; 9. Kinks and shrinks: the therapeutic value of queer sex work; Whorestory; Sex work as potentially healing; Another reason to be kinky: kinksters have better mental health outcomes; Communities as healing agents; Parallels between queer and sex worker communities; Queering sex work; Conclusion; Notes; References; 10. Dangerous curves: the complex intersections between queerness, fatness and sex work; References; 11. Older age, able-bodiedness and buying commercial sex: reclaiming the sexual self
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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