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.

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Social Sciences

Index

Abuja conference 2005, 240

ACT UP Paris, 224

activist-academics divide, 2; see also, research

Africa, 240

‘agency’ debate/issue, 28-9, 87-8

Agnoletto, Vittorio, 222

Al-Anon, 84

Alliance for Open Society International, 39

alliances, 228, 242; building, 18; politics of, 229; types, 230

Amsterdam, 50, 156

Anderson, E., 85, 110

Ann Summers, 14

anonymity, right to, 223

anti-porn movement, 41, 63

anti-prostitution feminists, 32-3, 36; George W. Bush access, 37

anti-social behaviour hotlines, UK, 215

Anti-Trafficking Centre, Belgrade, 224

Antwerp, mega-brothel, 14

apartment prostitution, unregulated, 196

arousal feigning, 67

arts-based consultation research use, 205-6

ASBOs (Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, UK), 204, 215

Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers, 240

Asian Women’s Rights Council, 37

Attwood, Feona, 10

Augustín, Laura, 3, 21, 62, 145, 222

‘authenticity’, 16

autonomy, street prostitution, 204

Badhan Hijra Sangha, 119

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 135

Bangkok: detention centre for illegal immigrants, 23-4

Bangladesh, 117; Baitul Mukar’ram Mosque, 124; gay subculture, 136; hijras, see below; homosexuality taboo, 129; sex workers’ children, 241; sexual surgery absence, 121

Basu, N., 132

Berlin, 156

Bernstein, Elizabeth, 59-60

Bhabha, Homi, 121

binary constructs, 124

bio-power, 130

Birmingham UK, 51, 145

body, infant perception of, 130

boundaries, construction, 49, 162

Bourgois, P., 85-6, 112-13

Brazil, US AIDS money rejection, 39

Brewis, Joanna, 50-3, 56, 61, 159, 165

British raj, 129, 132

Bröckling, Ulrich, 189

brothels, 26, 191; bar licences, 197; Greece licensed, 235; legal, 23; mega, 14; municipally regulated, 173; Nevada legalized, 15, 59; unregistered, 192

Bruckert, Chris, 150

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs, 168

Brussa, Licia, 221

Brussels ICSRE conference 224, 234, 240

Burawoy, Michael, 158-9

Bush, George W., 240; aid restrictions, 38; anti-sex feminist alliance, 19; ‘pro-woman’ rhetoric, 37

Butler, Judith, 121-2, 132, 134

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Cover
About the editors
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Beyond the Sex in Sex Work
A: Beyond Divides: New Frameworks for Understanding the Sex Industry
B: Managing Multiple Roles
C: Money and Sex
D: Sex Work and the State
E: Organizing Beyond Divides
Notes
Contributing authors
Bibliography
Index

About this book

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