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Temporarily Yours (Paperback, New edition)
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Temporarily Yours (Paperback, New edition)
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Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to
legitimate paid employment and a decline in the 'double standard'
would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation in
prostitution. Yet in both the developing world and in
postindustrial cities of the West, sexual commerce has continued to
flourish, diversifying along technological, spatial, and social
lines. In this deeply engaging and theoretically provocative study,
Elizabeth Bernstein examines the social features that undergird the
expansion and diversification of commercialized sex, demonstrating
the ways that postindustrial economic and cultural formations have
spawned rapid and unforeseen changes in the forms, meanings, and
spatial organization of sexual labor.
Drawing upon dynamic and innovative research with sex workers,
their clients, and state actors, Bernstein argues that in cities
such as San Francisco, Stockholm, and Amstersdam, the nature of
what is purchased in commercial sexual encounters is also new.
Rather than the expedient exchange of cash for sexual relations,
what sex workers are increasingly paid to offer their clients is an
erotic experience premised upon the performance of authentic
interpersonal connection. As such, contemporary sex markets are
emblematic of a cultural moment in which the boundaries between
intimacy and commerce--and between public life and private--have
been radically redrawn. Not simply a compelling exploration of the
changing landscape of sex-work, "Temporarily Yours" ultimately lays
bare the intimate intersections of political economy, desire, and
culture.
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