Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic
disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist,
political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research
exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men
and ignores other performances, practices, meanings and embodiments
in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in
order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new
insights into how gender, sex, power, crime, work, migration,
space/place, health and intimacy are understood in the context of
commercial sexual encounters. Queer Sex Work explores what it might
mean to 'be', 'do' and 'think' queer(ly) in the study and practice
of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical
case studies - including erotic dance venues, online sex working,
pornography, grey sexual economies, and BSDM - and offers a variety
of perspectives from academic scholars, policy practitioners,
activists and sex workers themselves. In so doing, the book
advances a queer politics of sex work that aims to disrupt
heteronormative logics whilst also making space for different
voices in academic and political debates about commercial sex. This
unique and multidisciplinary volume will be indispensable for
scholars and students of the global sex trade and of gender,
sexuality, feminism and queer theory more broadly, as well as
policymakers, activists and practitioners interested in the
politics and practice of sex work in local, national and
international contexts.
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