Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

ISBN-13: 9781848134331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

Melissa Hope Ditmore; Antonia Levy; Alys Willman

Opis

"Sex Work Matters" brings sex workers, scholars and activists together 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 police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers theoretical discussions as well empirical case studies, providing new ways to link theory with lived experiences. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights. The book will equip any reader with new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry, challenging readers to explore the topic of sex work in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions.

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Introduction: Beyond the Sex in Sex Work - Alys Willman and Antonia Levy Part I: Beyond Divides: New Frameworks for Understanding the Sex Industry 1. Sex Work Now: What the Blurring Boundaries around the Sex Industry Means for Sex Work, Research and Activism - Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck 2. The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research - Laura Agustín 3. The Meaning of the Whore: How Feminist Theories on Prostitution Shape Research on Female Sex Workers - Juline A. Koken Part II: Managing Multiple Roles 4. To Love, Honour, and Strip: An Investigation of Exotic Dancer Romantic Relationships - Mindy S. Bradley-Engen and Carrie M. Hobbs 5. Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution - Kerwin Kaye 6. enforced ab/normalcy: the sexworker hijras and the (re)appropriation of s/he identity - Mashrur Shahid Hossain Part III: Money and Sex 7. Let's Talk About Money - Alys Willman 8. Show Me the Money: A Sex Worker Reflects on Research into the Sex Industry - Jo Weldon 9. Selling Sex: Women's Participation in the Sex Industry - Melissa Petro Part IV: Sex Work and the State 10. Pimping the Pueblo: State Regulated Commercial Sex in Neoliberal Mexico - Patty Kelly 11. Deviant Girls, Small-Scale Entrepreneurs and the Regulation of German Sex Workers - Anne Dölemeyer, Rebecca Pates, Daniel Schmidt 12. Sex Work, Communities and Public Policy in the UK - Maggie O'Neill and Jane Pitcher Part V: Organizing Beyond Divides 13. Sex Workers' Rights Activism in Europe: Orientations from Brussels - Giulia Garofalo Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries in Sex Work Activism and Research - Melissa Ditmore