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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Prostitution

Murder in the Bayou - Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? (Paperback, Media Tie-In ed.): Ethan Brown Murder in the Bayou - Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? (Paperback, Media Tie-In ed.)
Ethan Brown
R408 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Organizing for Sex Workers' Rights in Montreal - Resistance and Advocacy (Paperback): Francine Tremblay Organizing for Sex Workers' Rights in Montreal - Resistance and Advocacy (Paperback)
Francine Tremblay
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is based on a case study about Stella, l'amie de Maimie a Montreal sex workers' rights organization, founded by and for sex workers. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry. Weighed down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy. This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but who are seldom seen as fully human.

Policing Pleasure - Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective (Hardcover, New): Susan Dewey, Patty Kelly Policing Pleasure - Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective (Hardcover, New)
Susan Dewey, Patty Kelly
R3,081 Discovery Miles 30 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Monica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the city, disease-free, and able to work. On the other side of the world, Min stands singing karaoke with one of her regular clients, warily eyeing the door lest a raid by the anti-trafficking Public Security Bureau disrupt their evening by placing one or both of them in jail. Whether in Mexico or China, sex work-related public policy varies considerably from one community to the next. A range of policies dictate what is permissible, many of them intending to keep sex workers themselves healthy and free from harm. Yet often, policies with particular goals end up having completely different consequences. Policing Pleasure examines cross-cultural public policies related to sex work, bringing together ethnographic studies from around the world-from South Africa to India-to offer a nuanced critique of national and municipal approaches to regulating sex work. Contributors offer new theoretical and methodological perspectives that move beyond already well-established debates between "abolitionists" and "sex workers' rights advocates" to document both the intention of public policies on sex work and their actual impact upon those who sell sex, those who buy sex, and public health more generally.

Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration - Unraveling the Impact of Neoliberal Economic Policy (Hardcover): Sarah Hupp... Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration - Unraveling the Impact of Neoliberal Economic Policy (Hardcover)
Sarah Hupp Williamson
R2,299 Discovery Miles 22 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Factors such as inequality, gender, globalization, corruption, and instability clearly matter in human trafficking. But does corruption work the same way in Cambodia as it does in Bolivia? Does instability need to be present alongside inequality to lead to human trafficking? How do issues of migration connect? Using migration, feminist, and criminological theory, this book asks how global economic policies contribute to the conditions which both drive migration and allow human trafficking to flourish, with specific focus on Cambodia, Bolivia, and The Gambia. Challenging existing thinking, the book concludes with an anti-trafficking framework which addresses the root causes of human trafficking.

Human Trafficking and the Feminization of Poverty - Structural Violence in Cambodia (Paperback): Yuko Shimazaki Human Trafficking and the Feminization of Poverty - Structural Violence in Cambodia (Paperback)
Yuko Shimazaki
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a comprehensive overview of human trafficking in Cambodia and the mechanisms of poverty in Southeast Asia. By examining personal narratives, Yuko Shimazaki traces trafficked women's efforts to liberate themselves from the poverty trap with the aid of external supporting organizations.This work is based on over 15 years of rich fieldwork experiences in Southeast Asian countries.

Human Trafficking in Europe - Character, Causes and Consequences (Hardcover): Gillian Wylie, Penelope McRedmond Human Trafficking in Europe - Character, Causes and Consequences (Hardcover)
Gillian Wylie, Penelope McRedmond
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, identifying underlying causes in globalisation, migration policies and gender inequality. It questions whether European responses-from policy makers or civil society are adequate to meet the challenge.

The Right to Sex - Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022 (Paperback): Amia Srinivasan The Right to Sex - Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022 (Paperback)
Amia Srinivasan
R304 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today 'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year' PANDORA SYKES ------------------------- How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. To grasp sex in all its complexity - its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power - we need to move beyond 'yes and no', wanted and unwanted. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2022

Third Party Sex Work and Pimps in the Age of Anti-trafficking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Amber Horning, Anthony Marcus Third Party Sex Work and Pimps in the Age of Anti-trafficking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Amber Horning, Anthony Marcus
R3,174 Discovery Miles 31 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is a compilation of new original qualitative and ethnographic research on pimps and other third party facilitators of commercial sex from the developed and developing world. From African-American pimps in the United States and Eastern European migrants in Germany to Brazilian cafetaos and cafetinas this volume features the lives and voices of the men and women who enable diverse and culturally distinct sex markets around the world. In scholarly, popular, and policy-making discourses, such individuals are typically viewed as larger-than-life hustlers, violent predators, and brutal exploiters. However, there is actually very little empirical research-based knowledge about how pimps and third party facilitators actually live, labor, and make meaning in their everyday lives. Nearly all previous knowledge derives from hearsay and post-hoc reporting from ex-sex-workers, customers, police and government agents, neighbors, and self-aggrandizing fictionalized memoirs. This volume is the first published compilation of empirically researched data and analysis about pimps and third parties working in the sex trade across the globe. Situated in an age of highly punitive and ubiquitous global anti-trafficking law, it challenges highly charged public policy stereotypes that conflate pimping and sex trafficking, in order to understand the lived experience of pimps and the men and women whose work they facilitate.

Work, Money and Duality - Trading Sex as a Side Hustle (Hardcover): Raven Bowen Work, Money and Duality - Trading Sex as a Side Hustle (Hardcover)
Raven Bowen
R2,294 Discovery Miles 22 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner of the British Society of Criminology Annual Book Prize 2022. As the labour market continues to exploit workers by offering precarious, low-paid and temporary jobs, for some duality offers much-needed flexibility and staves off poverty. Based on extensive empirical work, this book illustrates contemporary accounts of individuals taking extraordinary risks to hold jobs in both sex industries and non-sex work employment. It also opens a dialogue about how sex industries are stratified in the UK in terms of race and culture against the backdrop of Brexit. Debunking stereotypes of sex workers and challenging our stigmatisation of them, this book makes an invaluable contribution to discourses about work, society and future policy.

Tolerated Evil - Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New edition): Jan Burzynski Tolerated Evil - Prostitution in the Kingdom of Poland in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New edition)
Jan Burzynski; Jolanta Sikorska-Kulesza
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the nineteenth century, state policy towards prostitution was primarily shaped by an assessment of its role in spreading venereal diseases. In this book, the author traces normative and organisational efforts of the authorities of the Kingdom of Poland, which sought to maintain control over prostitution and the health of women who offered paid sexual services. The author uses data collected by the police and medical authorities supervising legal and illegal prostitution to provide a demographic and sociological picture of the big-city and small-town market of sexual commerce. It was only in the early twentieth century when prostitution became an important subject of the Polish public debate, a process which is described in the book against the backdrop of the major issues and fears of the epoch.

The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility - The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media... The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility - The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (Hardcover)
Catherine Gomes
R2,067 Discovery Miles 20 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sex Work and the New Zealand Model - Decriminalisation and Social Change (Hardcover): Cherida Fraser, Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith,... Sex Work and the New Zealand Model - Decriminalisation and Social Change (Hardcover)
Cherida Fraser, Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith, Shannon Mower, Michael Roguski, Fairleigh Gilmour, …
R3,017 R2,309 Discovery Miles 23 090 Save R708 (23%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights.

The Last Madam - A Life In The New Orleans Underworld (Paperback): Christine Wiltz The Last Madam - A Life In The New Orleans Underworld (Paperback)
Christine Wiltz
R456 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sexy, shrewd Norma Wallace ran the last of the legendary houses of prostitution in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Two years before her death in 1974, she began to tape-record her memories - the salacious stories of a smart, glamorous, powerful woman whose scandalous life made front-page headlines, and whose husbands and lovers ran the gamut from movie stars to gangsters to the boy next door, who she married when she was 70 and he was 29. Christine Wiltz used those tapes and interviewed Norma's former prostitutes and the men who frequented them to create The Last Madam, a chronicle of Norma's rise from a life of poverty to that of a wealthy underworld grande dame with powerful political connections who, when asked if there were any politicians she didn't have in her pocket, had to think a minute before answering, the President. This is also the social history of New Orleans over five decades, thick with the vice and corruption that flourished in the city's Old World atmosphere - and told with the steamy, seedy glamour that lived in New Orleans as nowhere else.

Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work between East Java and Bali - An Ethnography of Youth, Bodies, and Violence (Hardcover,... Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work between East Java and Bali - An Ethnography of Youth, Bodies, and Violence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Matteo Carlo Alcano
R2,440 R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Save R533 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. These are accounts of gang warfare, bodies, and violence which speak to the dreams, aspirations, and failures of a generation of young men in contemporary Indonesia.

Sex For Sale - Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Ronald Weitzer Sex For Sale - Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Ronald Weitzer
R4,058 Discovery Miles 40 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

-- Regarded as the seminal collection of studies in the field of sex work, this volume introduces readers to comprehensive and cutting-edge research on commercial sex and sexual economies. - Examines a variety of issues related to sex work, such as prostitution, pornography, sex tourism, escorts, male and female clients through a sociological, political, and legal lens. - The volume offers important scholarship on deviance, as well as on gender, sexuality, crime, and sex work, specifically, making it a highly relevant choice for courses across sociology, criminology & criminal justice, and women's and gender studies disciplines. - The third edition offers new and/or updated writings on "traditional" forms of sexual labour, incl. street prostitution, pornography, and escorting, as well as all new and original contributions on topics of ever-increasing importance in the field: internet facilitation, transgender work, sex workers rights movement, decriminalization and alternative policies, etc. - New chapters offer historical perspectives as well as alternative measures/policies, both of which strengthen the overall context for which the empirically-based chapters are grounded.

Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution - Contested Engagements in Africa, the Americas and Europe (Paperback):... Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution - Contested Engagements in Africa, the Americas and Europe (Paperback)
Isabel Crowhurst, Susan Dewey, Chimaraoke Izugbara
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the well-being of people operating in the sex industries. With a focus on three vast and extremely diverse regions, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, this book provides a unique vantage point that shows how interlinked these organizations' histories and configurations are. TSOs are fascinating research sites because they operate as zones of contestation which translate their understandings of sex work and prostitution into different support practices and advocacy initiatives. This book reveals that these organizations are not external to normative power but participate in it and are subject to it, conditioning how they can exist, who they can reach out to, where, and what they can achieve. Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is a resource for scholars, policymakers, and activists involved in research on, and work with third sector organizations in the fields of sex work and prostitution, gender and sexuality, and human rights among others.

The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility - The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media... The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility - The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media (Paperback)
Catherine Gomes
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
From Shanghai to Shanghai - The War Diary of an Imperial Japanese Army Medical Officer, 1937-1941 (Hardcover): Tetsuo Aso From Shanghai to Shanghai - The War Diary of an Imperial Japanese Army Medical Officer, 1937-1941 (Hardcover)
Tetsuo Aso; Translated by Hal Gold
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Athenian Prostitution - The Business of Sex (Hardcover): Edward E Cohen Athenian Prostitution - The Business of Sex (Hardcover)
Edward E Cohen
R2,897 Discovery Miles 28 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, Athenian Prostitution analyzes erotic business at Athens not anachronistically, but in the context of the Athenian economy. For the Athenians, the social acceptability and moral standing of human labor was largely determined by the conditions under which work was performed. Pursued in a context characteristic of servile endeavor, prostitution-like all forms of slave labor-was contemptible. Pursued under conditions appropriate to non-servile endeavor, prostitution-like all forms of free labor-was not violative of Athenian work ethics. As a mercantile activity, however, prostitution was not untouched by Athenian antagonism toward commercial and manual pursuits; as the "business of sex," prostitution further evoked negativity from segments of Greek opinion uncomfortable with any form of carnality. Yet ancient sources also adumbrate another view, in which the sale of sex, lawful and indeed pervasive at Athens, is presented alluringly. In Athenian Prostitution, Edward E. Cohen explores the high compensation earned by female sexual entrepreneurs who often controlled prostitutional businesses that were perpetuated from generation to generation on a matrilineal basis, and that benefitted from legislative restrictions on pimping. The author juxtaposes the widespread practice of "prostitution pursuant to written contract" with legislation targeting male prostitutes functioning as governmental leaders, and explores the seemingly contradictory phenomena of extensive sexual exploitation of slave prostitutes (male and female) coexisting with Athenian society's pride in its legislative protection of slaves and minors against sexual outrage.

Collaborating against Human Trafficking - Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices (Hardcover): Kirsten Foot Collaborating against Human Trafficking - Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices (Hardcover)
Kirsten Foot
R2,208 Discovery Miles 22 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the fight against human trafficking, cross-sector collaboration is vital-but often, systemic tensions undermine the effectiveness of these alliances. Kirsten Foot explores the most potent sources of such difficulties, offering insights and tools that leaders in every sector can use to re-think the power dynamics of partnering. Weaving together perspectives from many sectors including business, donor foundations, mobilization and advocacy NGOs, faith communities, and survivor-activists, as well as government agencies, law enforcement, and providers of victim services, Foot assesses how differences in social location (financial well-being, race, gender, etc.) and sector-based values contribute to interpersonal, inter-organizational, and cross-sector challenges. She convincingly demonstrates that finding constructive paths through such multi-level tensions-by employing a mix of shared leadership, strategic planning, and particular practices of communication and organization-can in turn facilitate more robust and sustainable collaborative efforts. An appendix provides exercises for use in building, evaluating, and trouble-shooting multi-sector collaborations, as well as links to online tools and recommendations for additional resources. All royalties from this book go to nonprofits in U.S. cities dedicated to facilitating cross-sector collaboration to end human trafficking. For more information and related resources, please visit http://CollaboratingAgainstTrafficking.info.

Sex Work, Labour, and Empowerment - Lessons from the Informal Entertainment Sector in Nepal (Hardcover): Sutirtha Sahariah Sex Work, Labour, and Empowerment - Lessons from the Informal Entertainment Sector in Nepal (Hardcover)
Sutirtha Sahariah
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries. Generally, the key debates on sex work have centred on arguments proposed by the oppressive and empowerment paradigms. This book moves away from such debates to look widely at the micro issues such as the role of income in the lives of sex workers, the significance of peer organisations and networks of women, and how resilience is enacted and empowerment experienced. It also uses positive deviancy theory as a useful strategy to bring about notable changes in terms of empowerment and agency for women working in this sector and also for addressing the wider issues of migration, HIV/AIDS, and violence against women and girls. The focus is on moving beyond a victimisation framework without downplaying the extent of the violence that women in this industry experience. It conceptualises the theories of empowerment and power which have not been tested against women who work in this sector, combined with in-depth interviews with women working in the industry as well as academics, activists, and personnel in the NGO and donor sector. In doing so, it informs the reader of the numerous social, political, and economic factors that structure and sustain the global growth of the industry and analyses the diverse factors that lead many thousands of women and girls around the world to work in this sector. The work presents an important contribution to the study of citizenship and rights from a non-Western angle and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers across human rights, sociology, economics, and development studies.

Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Prevention, Advocacy, and Trauma-Informed Practice (Paperback): Lara B.... Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Prevention, Advocacy, and Trauma-Informed Practice (Paperback)
Lara B. Gerassi, Andrea J. Nichols
R1,775 R1,342 Discovery Miles 13 420 Save R433 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first comprehensive text to critically analyze the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking/ CSE including prevention, identification, practice techniques, and program design as well as suggested interagency, criminal justice, and legislative responses. Best practices are examined through an intersectional, trauma-informed lens that adheres to principles of cultural competency. Highlights include: Integrates a trauma informed lens in practice, program design, and interagency responses. Uses an intersectional approach to examine identity-based oppression such as race, class, sex, LGBTQ identities, age, immigrant status, and intellectual disabilities. Highlights the importance of cultural competency in practice and program design, prevention and outreach efforts, and interagency and criminal justice system responses. Reviews the different types of sex trafficking and CSE, the physiological and psychological effects, various risk factors, and the distinct needs of survivors to encourage practitioners to tailor interventions to the specific needs of each client. Examines the role of social workers and practitioners in interagency, legislative, and criminal justice responses to sex trafficking. Takes a broad societal perspective by examining the role of macro-level risk factors facilitating sex trafficking victimization. The book analyzes the commonly reported indicators of sex trafficking/CSE, how to conduct a screening with potential victims, and direct practice techniques with various populations including evidence-based trauma treatments. Other chapters guide the reader in implementing trauma-informed programming in a variety of organizational settings, advocating for sex trafficking and CSE survivors within the criminal justice system, and implementing effective prevention and outreach programs in schools and community organizations. Intended as a text for upper division courses on sex or human trafficking, interventions with women, trauma interventions, violence against women, or gender and crime taught in social work, psychology, counseling, and criminal justice, this book is also an ideal resource for practitioners working with victims of sex trafficking and CSE in a variety of settings including child protective services, the criminal justice system, healthcare, schools, and more.

Designing Prostitution Policy - Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade (Hardcover): Hendrik Wagenaar, Helga... Designing Prostitution Policy - Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade (Hardcover)
Hendrik Wagenaar, Helga Amesberger, Sietske Altink
R2,343 Discovery Miles 23 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. While the debate on regulating prostitution usually focuses on national policy, it is local policy measures that have the most impact on the ground. This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of prostitution policy at the local level and carefully situates local policy practices in national policy making and transnational trends in labour migration and exploitation. Based on detailed comparative research in Austria and the Netherlands, and bringing in experiences in countries such as New Zealand and Sweden, it analyses the policy instruments employed by local administrators to control prostitution and sex workers. Bridging the gap between theory and policy, emphasizing the multilevel nature of prostitution policy, while also highlighting more effective policies on prostitution, migration and labour exploitation, this unique book fills a gap in the literature on this contentious and important social issue.

Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking - Europe, Latin America, North America, and Global (Hardcover):... Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking - Europe, Latin America, North America, and Global (Hardcover)
Rochelle L. Dalla, Lynda M. Baker, John DeFrain, Celia Williamson; Contributions by Arun Kumar Acharya, …
R3,167 Discovery Miles 31 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also includes a "global" section, which includes chapters that are globally relevant - rather than those devoted to a particular country or geographic location. The content of each volume, as well as each chapter, reflects great diversity - diversity in focus, writing style, and personal position regarding the commercial sex industry. Diversity extends to the contributors, who are comprised of international scholars, service providers, and policy advocates representing a variety of fields and disciplines, with distinct and varied frames of reference and theoretical underpinnings with regard to the commercial sex industry. In addition to addressing aspects of the CSI across the globe, as impacted by geography and culture, authors have also provided a spectrum of implications of their work - implications ranging from continued scholarship and research, to legislative maneuvers and policy change, to suggestions for collaboration across NGOS, fieldworkers, clinicians, and service providers. Together, the 34 expertly-crafted chapters provide a wealth of knowledge from which to more deeply appreciate and contemplate the global commercial sex industry. By uniting contributors from around the world, this book aims to build a relatively common knowledge base on global prostitution and sex trafficking.

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers - Women and Migration in a Global City (Hardcover): Christine B.N. Chin Cosmopolitan Sex Workers - Women and Migration in a Global City (Hardcover)
Christine B.N. Chin
R2,203 Discovery Miles 22 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking work that examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Christine Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework that she terms "3C" (city, creativity and cosmopolitanism) in order to show how factors at the local, state, transnational and individual levels work together to shape women's ability to migrate to perform sex work. Chin's book will show that as neoliberal economic restructuring processes create pathways connecting major cities throughout the world, competition and collaboration between cities creates new avenues for the movement of people, services and goods (the "city" portion of the argument). Loosely organized networks of migrant labor grow in tandem with professional-managerial classes, and sex workers migrate to different parts of cities, depending on the location of the clientele to which they cater. But while global cities create economic opportunities for migrants (and survive on the labor they provide), states also react to the presence of migrants with new forms of securitization and surveillance. Migrants therefore need to negotiate between appropriating and subverting the ideas that inform global economic restructuring to maintain agency (the "creativity"). Chin suggests that migration allows women to develop intercultural skills that help them to make these negotiations (the "cosmopolitanism"). Chin's book stands apart from other literature on migrant sex labor not only in that she focuses on non-trafficked women, but also in that she demonstrates the co-dependence between global economic processes, sex work, and women's economic agency. Through original ethnographic research with sex workers in Kuala Lumpur, she shows that migrant sex work can provide women with the means of earning income for families, for education, and even for their own businesses. It also allows women the means to travel the world - a form of cosmopolitanism "from below."

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