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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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------------------------- 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
-- 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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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