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Sex work matters : exploring money, power, and intimacy in the sex industry / edited by Melissa Hope Ditmore, Antonia Levy, and Alys Willman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--Social aspects.
- Prostitution.
- Sex industry--Social aspects.
- Sex industry.
- Prostitutes--Social conditions.
- Prostitutes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 / Kathryn Hausbeck
- 2. The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research / Laura Agustin
- 3. The Meaning of the Ẁhore': How Feminist Theories on Prostitution Shape Research on Female Sex Workers / Juline A. Koken
- B. Managing Multiple Roles
- 4. To Love, Honor, and Strip: An Investigation of Exotic Dancer Romantic Relationships / Carrie M. Hobbs
- 5. Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution / Kerwin Kaye
- 6. Enforced ab/normalcy: the sex worker hijras and the (re)appropriation of s/he identity / Mashrur Shahid Hossain
- C. 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.
- D. 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 / Daniel Schmidt
- 12. Sex Work, Communities, and Public Policy in the UK / Jane Pitcher
- E.Organizing Beyond Divides
- 13. Sex Workers' Rights Activism in Europe: Orientations from Brussels / Giulia Garofalo
- 14. Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries in Sex Work Activism and Research / Melissa Hope Ditmore.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612659140
- 9781350222526
- 1350222526
- 9781848138407
- 1848138407
- 9781282659148
- 1282659146
- 9781848134355
- 1848134355
- OCLC:
- 650367100
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