A tour de force. Curating Foucault, Federici, and Freud into a singular framework, Nicola Smith reveals how imbricated sexuality and capitalism from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries are. Through the lens of the commercial sex sector in England, we see how the story of capitalism is literally written on women's bodies.
Nicola J. Smith is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the intersections between queer theory and feminist political economy, and spans topics such as sex work, body politics, austerity, and neoliberal discourse.