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Based on the work of George Herbert Mead, Han Joas, and Axel
Honneth, as well as the author’s own personal and academic
identities and journeys, Self, Identity, and Collective Action
argues that the self and action are strictly related. Reading these
authors provided Francine Tremblay with the theoretical ground to
stand on while thinking about identity and how it is linked to
civic participation. She posits that Mead’s work and its link to
action must be revisited and given its rightful place in sociology,
and thatsociology must be radical, committed, and passionate.
This book is based on a case study about Stella, l'amie de Maimie a
Montreal sex workers' rights organization, founded by and for sex
workers. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified
sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the
health and well-being of women working in the sex industry. Weighed
down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at
Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work
and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and
create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy.
This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and
strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other
marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but
who are seldom seen as fully human.
This book is based on a case study about Stella, l'amie de Maimie a
Montreal sex workers' rights organization, founded by and for sex
workers. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified
sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the
health and well-being of women working in the sex industry. Weighed
down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at
Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work
and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and
create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy.
This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and
strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other
marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but
who are seldom seen as fully human.
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