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Author:   Carisa R. Showden ,  Samantha Majic
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780816689583

ISBN 10:   081668958
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Introduction: The Politics of Sex WorkCarisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic Part I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics of Location Approach for Studying Sex WorkMichele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team StudyAlexandra Lutnick3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in VancouverRaven Bowen and Tamara O’Doherty Part II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution PolicyAnnie Hill5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of “Ugly Bodies”Cheryl Auger 6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in BrazilThaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women’s Rights and Thailand’s Response to Human TraffickingEdith Kinney8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the NetherlandsJoyce Outshoorn9. Comrades, Push The Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in FinlandGregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, and Pia Levin Part III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex WorkersGregor Gall11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the BlogosphereValerie Feldman12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Women Sex Worker Activists Creating CommunityYasmin Lalani13. Sex Worker Rights Organizations and Government Funding in CanadaSarah Beer and Francine TremblayContributorsIndex

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Carisa R. Showden is associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro. She is the author of Choices Women Make: Agency in Domestic Violence, Assisted Reproduction, and Sex Work (Minnesota, 2011). Samantha Majic is assistant professor of political science at John Jay College/CUNY. She is the author of Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision.

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