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From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19
pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the
sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the
complexities of the current political moment in different
geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence
of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the
pursuit of a more just world. Engaging theories of decoloniality,
racial capitalism, queer materialism, and social reproduction, this
book demonstrates the centrality of sexual politics to
neoliberalism, including both social relations and statecraft.
Drawing on ethnographic case studies, the authors show that gender
and sexuality may be the site for policies like those pertaining to
sex trafficking, which bundle together economics and changes to the
structure of the state. In other instances, sexual politics are
crucial components of policies on issues ranging from the growth of
financial services to migration. Tracing the role of sexual
politics across different localities and through different
political domains, this book delineates the paradoxical assemblage
that makes up contemporary neoliberal hegemony. In addition to
exploring contemporary social relations of neoliberal governance,
exploitation, domination, and exclusion, the authors also consider
gender and sexuality as forces that have shaped myriad forms of
community-based activism and resistance, including local efforts to
pursue new forms of social change. By tracing neoliberal paradoxes
across global sites, the book delineates the multiple dimensions of
economic and cultural restructuring that have characterized
neoliberal regimes and emergent activist responses to them. This
innovative analysis of the relationship between gender justice and
political economy will appeal to: interdisciplinary scholars in
social and cultural studies; legal and political theorists; and the
wide range of readers who are concerned with contemporary questions
of social justice.
From the rise of far-right regimes to the tumult of the COVID-19
pandemic, recent years have brought global upheaval as well as the
sedimentation of longstanding social inequalities. Analyzing the
complexities of the current political moment in different
geographic regions, this book addresses the paradoxical persistence
of neoliberal policies and practices, in order to ground the
pursuit of a more just world. Engaging theories of decoloniality,
racial capitalism, queer materialism, and social reproduction, this
book demonstrates the centrality of sexual politics to
neoliberalism, including both social relations and statecraft.
Drawing on ethnographic case studies, the authors show that gender
and sexuality may be the site for policies like those pertaining to
sex trafficking, which bundle together economics and changes to the
structure of the state. In other instances, sexual politics are
crucial components of policies on issues ranging from the growth of
financial services to migration. Tracing the role of sexual
politics across different localities and through different
political domains, this book delineates the paradoxical assemblage
that makes up contemporary neoliberal hegemony. In addition to
exploring contemporary social relations of neoliberal governance,
exploitation, domination, and exclusion, the authors also consider
gender and sexuality as forces that have shaped myriad forms of
community-based activism and resistance, including local efforts to
pursue new forms of social change. By tracing neoliberal paradoxes
across global sites, the book delineates the multiple dimensions of
economic and cultural restructuring that have characterized
neoliberal regimes and emergent activist responses to them. This
innovative analysis of the relationship between gender justice and
political economy will appeal to: interdisciplinary scholars in
social and cultural studies; legal and political theorists; and the
wide range of readers who are concerned with contemporary questions
of social justice.
"Regulating Sex" is an anthology that presents debates over the
role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice,
intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to
address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas
such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and
childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between
socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and
political perspectives.
Contributors include Laura Agustin, Mary Bernstein, Wendy Chapkis,
Paisley Currah, Kjersti Ericsson, Gert Hekma, Janet R. Jakobsen,
Kerwin Kaye, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Shannon Minter, Julia
O'Connell Davidson, Will Rountree, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor,
Penelope Saunders, and Steven Seidman.
Accessibly written for use as a companion or text in sociology of
law, gender, family, childhood and youth studies, and sexuality
courses, "Regulating Sex" challenges "status quo "analyses in the
sociology of sexuality and the state.
Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role
of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice,
intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to
address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas
such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and
childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between
socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and
political perspectives.
Our shared concern for the victims of sex trafficking represents a
rare spot of common ground in contemporary political discourse.
Galvanized by impassioned accounts of the abduction and forced
labor of women and girls, such normally divergent groups as
evangelical Christians, secular feminists, aid workers, and
corporate scions have all rallied behind anti-trafficking
initiatives and legislation. But just how well do these sweeping
concerns and legal efforts mesh with the lived realities of the sex
trade, and where exactly did the modern conception of sex
trafficking originate? In answering these questions, Brokered
Subjects digs into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to
reveal the troubling assumptions which have shaped both right and
left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing upon years of
in-depth field work, Elizabeth Bernstein sheds light not only on
trafficking but on the broader structures that meld the ostensible
pursuit of liberation with contemporary techniques of power. Rather
than any meaningful commitment to the safety of sex workers,
Bernstein argues, what lies behind our current vision of
trafficking victims is a transnational mix of putatively
humanitarian militaristic interventions, feel-good capitalism, and
what she terms carceral feminism: a feminism compatible with police
batons.
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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