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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Prostitution
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor
is only the beginning of the story. Part labor history, part
ethnography illuminating the lives of the performers who work in
the medium, Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore
what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to
hack it. It tells a story of crafty workers, faltering managers,
and shifting solidarities. Blending extensive fieldwork with
feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial
labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any
notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it
reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working
landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell
us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to
build something better.
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor
is only the beginning of the story. Part labor history, part
ethnography illuminating the lives of the performers who work in
the medium, Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore
what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to
hack it. It tells a story of crafty workers, faltering managers,
and shifting solidarities. Blending extensive fieldwork with
feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial
labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any
notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it
reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working
landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell
us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to
build something better.
Bringing together conceptual, practice, and advocacy knowledge,
Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: Freedom's Journey
explores the complexities of human trafficking and modern-day
slavery through a global perspective. This comprehensive,
multidisciplinary text includes a discussion of the root causes and
structural issues that continue to plague society, as well as
real-life case studies and vignettes, the words of human
trafficking survivors, and insights from first responders and
anti-trafficking advocates. Each chapter includes a "call to
action" to inspire readers to implement a range of strategies
designed to disrupt, eradicate, or mitigate human trafficking and
modern-day slavery.
Amaya is a young Filipino immigrant who has been an exotic dancer
in Honolulu, Hawaii before she was even 21. This novel is a
semi-biographical examination of Amaya's life in the rural
Philippines, her early teenage years in Hawaii and her life as an
exotic dancer. She is unapologetic about her profession of getting
naked nightly for an endless parade of customers and her
descriptions of life inside a strip club, her fellow dancers, and
the customers they perform for are sometimes crude and cynical, but
they're also laced with humor, many times black humor. Amaya is
direct and honest about her reasons to become an exotic dancer, and
benefits and the dark side of the profession, and about her
attempts to get out of the life. Hopefully, this novel will provide
the reader a better understanding of the women caught in this
career either by choice or happenstance and paints them in a shade
of normalcy that is not found anywhere else. The language is many
times rough and offensive, but it is the world Amaya lives in.
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