ISBN:
9780816689590
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (377 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Negotiating Sex Work : Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism
DDC:
306.74
Keywords:
Prostitution -- Government policy
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Prostitutes -- Political activity
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Prostitutes -- Labor unions
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Prostitutes ; Labor unions
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Prostitutes ; Political activity
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Prostitution ; Government policy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimized, the popular media and our political leaders emphasize sex work as exclusively exploitative. In Negotiating Sex Work, Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic present a series of essays that depict sex work as an issue far more complex than generally perceived. Positions on sex work are primarily
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Politics of Sex Work; Part I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production; 1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics-of-Location Approach for Studying Sex Work; 2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team Study; 3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in Vancouver; Part II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences; 4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution Policy
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of "Ugly Bodies"6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in Brazil; 7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women's Rights and Thailand's Response to Human Trafficking; 8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the Netherlands; 9. Comrades, Push the Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in Finland
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex Workers; 11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the Blogosphere; 12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Female Sex Worker Activists Creating Community; 13. Sex Workers' Rights Organizations and Government Funding in Canada; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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