Producing The Acceptable Sex Worker

Author : Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538165155
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker written by Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general public draws its understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, this book considers an emerging discourse of acceptability for some sex workers, primarily those who do low-volume indoor work. Their acceptability is established in comparison with other kinds of sex workers, resulting in a redistribution but not a reduction of stigma. The conditions attached to acceptability reflect persistent anxieties aboutsex work: workers who are acceptable must give the impression that the sexual labour of the job is enjoyable and virtually indistinguishable from their personal life, eliding the work involved. Unacceptable workers have existing marginalisations magnified by their association with the industry, with migrant sex workers produced as devious or exploited, and transgender women’s involvement with the industry used to deny them the right to public space. The conditions attached to acceptability reveal how neoliberal discourses of choice, desire, authenticity, and personal responsibility inform the formation of sex work in the public eye.

Author : Claire Weinhold
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031192605
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex as Work written by Claire Weinhold and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways that brothels are managed under decriminalisation in New Zealand. New Zealand decriminalised sex work in 2003 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act, making it the first country to do so. Decriminalisation situates brothels as ‘businesses like any other’ and creates a legislative platform for better working conditions for sex workers. Nevertheless, we have limited understanding of how brothels are managed in New Zealand. Drawing on interviews with brothel operators and sex workers, this book explores how the law is understood and implemented, how brothel operators position their businesses, and how they seek legitimacy in a historically stigmatised sector. It also examines the rules and norms by which operators manage their businesses and the possibilities for sex workers to consent to commercial sexual services in the context of neoliberal norms of work and of managers who expect them to be professionalised, responsibilised and productive.

Author : Melissa Hope Ditmore
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848138407
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Work Matters written by Melissa Hope Ditmore and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists 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 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. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that explores the topic in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions. Readers weary of the sensational and often salacious treatment of the sex industry in the media and literature will find Sex Work Matters refreshing.

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471935
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Feminist Literary Studies written by Jennifer Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

Author : Debbie Jones
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031077776
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Student Sex Work written by Debbie Jones and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work. It brings together experienced researchers, activists, practitioners, early career researchers and those with lived experience of doing sex work in the university setting from across the globe. The book addresses three core areas: Activism, Ideology and Exclusion; Motivations and Experiences; and University Policy, Practice and Service Delivery. This collection represents significant theoretical, methodological and policy and practice contributions within sex work studies. These new perspectives contribute to our existing knowledge, introduce new directions for scholarship and prompt new and exciting questions about how higher education students’ participation in sex work can be researched, understood and responded to in an ethical, non-stigmatising approach. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and service providers and given the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters, the book has a cross-disciplinary appeal.

Author : Emma Rees
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000627004
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture written by Emma Rees and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.

Author : Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529230357
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Work and COVID-19 in the New Zealand Media written by Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand’s relatively recent decriminalisation of sex work and its unusual success in combatting COVID-19 have both attracted international media interest. This accessibly written book uses the lens of news media coverage to consider the pandemic’s impacts on both sex workers and public perceptions of the industry. Analysing the stigmatisation of sex work in both short- and long-term contexts, the book addresses the impacts of intersectional oppressions or marginalisations on sex workers, and the ways sex work advocacy relates to other social justice movements. It unpicks how New Zealand’s decriminalisation approach functions under stress, offering valuable information for advocates, activists and scholars.

Author : Lisa Caviglia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351393308
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Work in Nepal written by Lisa Caviglia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ‘sex work’ in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines changes as well as continuities characterising socio-cultural norms and perceptions through an analysis of sexual consumption. It also highlights the ways in which the development sector, media, and local community discourses frame ‘sex work’ as a distinct category. How does the work of development aid projects affect the understanding of the sex worker category? How are visual and media images employed to mark spaces of perdition in the Nepalese urban setting and what forms of imagination do they trigger? How are intimate practices and relations transformed by imported notions of love, and how do standards of propriety related to such interactions shift? This book attempts to answer some of these questions. An in-depth and intimate ethnography, the book deconstructs the sex worker category against the backdrop of global influences within local urban surroundings and points to the contradictions therein. Furthermore, through thorough descriptions of the experiences, agency, decision-making processes, and lives of those labelled as sex workers, the book challenges concepts such as deviance and victimhood. It proposes a counternarrative by rethinking ideas of gender, objectification, marginality, symbolic violence, and discrimination. This book will greatly interest researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, sociology and social anthropology, South Asian studies and social sciences, as well as NGOs and those involved in the development sector.

Author : Armstrong, Lynzi
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529205816
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Work and the New Zealand Model written by Armstrong, Lynzi and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the evidence from New Zealand, this unique collection examines how decriminalisation is experienced by different groups of sex workers and reveals the enduring challenges for sex workers in this context. This is an invaluable contribution to the urgent debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex worker’s rights.

Author : Jerald L. Mosley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030615529
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex Workers and Their Clients written by Jerald L. Mosley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization. It does so by contrasting their voices with the claims made by prohibitionists: those advocating the prohibition of prostitution or, at least, the prohibition of the purchase of sexual services, and notes scholarly research that gives context to those accounts and claims. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular issue which is given currency in academic and public debates on sex work. The first part of each chapter reviews the state of research and publicly-aired contentions and the second part compares sex workers' voices with claims from prohibitionists. It highlights the gap between what many sex workers have to say about themselves and what theorizing prohibitionists say about all prostitution. It argues that there is often a striking contrast in attitude, perspective, interpretation and valuation. This books speaks primarily to prohibitionist thinking and sex work stereotyping and, secondarily, to the debate on decriminalization of sex work.