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Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker - An Analysis of Media Representations (Hardcover)
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Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker - An Analysis of Media Representations (Hardcover)
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Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is
produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general
public draw their understanding of the industry in the absence of
lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, the
book considers an emerging discourse of acceptability for some sex
workers, primarily those who do low-volume indoor work. Their
acceptability is established in comparison with other kinds of sex
workers, resulting in a redistribution but not a reduction of
stigma. The conditions attached to acceptability reflect persistent
anxieties about prostitution: workers who are acceptable must give
the impression that the sexual labour of the job is enjoyable and
virtually indistinguishable from their personal life, eliding the
work involved. Unacceptable workers have existing marginalisations
magnified by their association with the industry, with migrant sex
workers produced as devious or exploited, and transgender women's
involvement with the industry used to deny them the right to public
space. The conditions attached to acceptability reveal how
neoliberal postfeminist discourses of choice, desire, authenticity,
and personal responsibility inform the formation of sex work in the
public eye.
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