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Sex Work Politics - From Protest to Service Provision (Hardcover)
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Sex Work Politics - From Protest to Service Provision (Hardcover)
Series: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
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In San Francisco, the St. James Infirmary (SJI) and the California
Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) provide free, nonjudgmental
medical care, counseling, and other health and social services by
and for sex workers-a radical political commitment at odds with
government policies that criminalize prostitution. To maintain and
expand these much-needed services and to qualify for funding from
state, federal, and local authorities, such organizations must
comply with federal and state regulations for nonprofits. In Sex
Work Politics, Samantha Majic investigates the way nonprofit
organizations negotiate their governmental obligations while
maintaining their commitment to outreach and advocacy for sex
workers' rights as well as broader sociopolitical change. Drawing
on multimethod qualitative research, Majic outlines the strategies
that CAL-PEP and SJI employ to balance the conflicting demands of
service and advocacy, which include treating sex work as labor with
legitimate occupational health and safety concerns, empowering
their clients with civic skills to advance their political
commitments outside the nonprofit organization, and conducting and
publishing research and analysis to inform the public and
policymakers of their constituents' needs. Challenging the
assumption that activists must "sell out" and abandon radical
politics to manage formal organizations, Majic comes to the
surprising conclusion that it is indeed possible to maintain
effective advocacy and key social movement values, beliefs, and
practices, even while partnering with government agencies. Sex Work
Politics significantly contributes to studies of transformational
politics with its nuanced portrait of nonprofits as centers capable
of sustaining political and social change.
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