Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism
Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic
Abstract
Negotiating Sex Work provides a timely and necessary intervention in to current public and political debates about sex work, debates which are primarily divided between those who view selling sexual services as legitimate work, and those who view it as a form of coercive sexual exploitation (or sex trafficking). By presenting scholarship from a range of countries and disciplinary and methodological traditions, this book intervenes in this long-standing debate by emphasizing sex workers’ political agency, an emphasis that highlights the limits of the poles in political and policy debates. In so ... More
Negotiating Sex Work provides a timely and necessary intervention in to current public and political debates about sex work, debates which are primarily divided between those who view selling sexual services as legitimate work, and those who view it as a form of coercive sexual exploitation (or sex trafficking). By presenting scholarship from a range of countries and disciplinary and methodological traditions, this book intervenes in this long-standing debate by emphasizing sex workers’ political agency, an emphasis that highlights the limits of the poles in political and policy debates. In so doing, it specifically offers a critique of the broader sex trafficking debates that dominate the current politics of sex work.
Keywords:
Sex work,
Sexuality,
Sex trafficking,
HIV/AIDS,
Research methodology,
Qualitative research methods,
Feminist theory,
Political participation,
Social movements,
Civic engagement
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816689583 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816689583.001.0001 |
