About the BookSex Work Matters brings sex workers, scholars and activists together to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers theoretical discussions as well empirical case studies, providing new ways to link theory with lived experiences. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that readers weary of the sensational and often salacious treatment of the sex industry in the media and literature will find refreshing. The book will equip any reader with new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry, challenging readers to explore the topic of sex work in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions. What People Have Said About the Book'Sex Work Matters is destined to become a classic in its field, offering fresh new perspectives on romantic and economic taboos in the lives of sex workers. The future of research on erotic commerce depends on these powerful voices, informed arguments and timeless ideas.' - Tracy Quan, author, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl and Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, www.tracyquan.net Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond the Sex in Sex Work - Alys Willman and Antonia Levy Part 1. Beyond Divides: New Frameworks for Understanding the Sex Industry 1. Sex Work Now: What the Blurring Boundaries around the Sex Industry Means for Sex Work, Research and Activism - Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck 2. The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research - Laura Agustín 3. The Meaning of the Whore: How Feminist Theories on Prostitution Shape Research on Female Sex Workers - Juline A. Koken Part 2. Managing Multiple Roles 4. To Love, Honour, and Strip: An Investigation of Exotic Dancer Romantic Relationships - Mindy S. Bradley-Engen and Carrie M. Hobbs 5. Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution - Kerwin Kaye 6. enforced ab/normalcy: the sexworker hijras and the (re)appropriation of s/he identity - Mashrur Shahid Hossain Part 3. Money and Sex 7. Let's Talk About Money - Alys Willman 8. Show Me the Money: A Sex Worker Reflects on Research into the Sex Industry - Jo Weldon 9. Selling Sex: Women's Participation in the Sex Industry - Melissa Petro Part 4. Sex Work and the State 10. Pimping the Pueblo: State Regulated Commercial Sex in Neoliberal Mexico - Patty Kelly 11. Deviant Girls, Small-Scale Entrepreneurs and the Regulation of German Sex Workers - Anne Dölemeyer, Rebecca Pates, Daniel Schmidt 12. Sex Work, Communities and Public Policy in the UK - Maggie O'Neill and Jane Pitcher Part 5. Organizing Beyond Divides 13. Sex Workers' Rights Activism in Europe: Orientations from Brussels - Giulia Garofalo Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries in Sex Work Activism and Research - Melissa Ditmore About the EditorsMelissa Ditmore is a post-doctoral fellow at NDRI. She has investigated ethics in research, the effects of police raids on sex workers and trafficked persons, and violence against sex workers. She edited the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (Greenwood Press, 2006). She is an author on the three reports produced by the Sex Workers Project. Melissa Ditmore has written about sex work, migration and trafficking for The Lancet and SIECUS Report. She is a contributor to Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered (Paradigm, 2005) and The Affective Turn (Duke, 2007.) She has spoken about prostitution, migration rights and research ethics at the United Nations, the International Conference on HIV/AIDS, Columbia University, Cornell University, Hong Kong City University and numerous academic and political conferences. Antonia Levy is a PhD candidate and adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York. Her research interests include political sociology, gender and sexuality, social movements and activism, as well as visual sociology; her thesis focuses on the polyamory movement in Germany and the US. Her work as social justice activist centres around issues related to women’s liberation and sexual rights, labour, as well as community media. Currently, she is a member of the PapertigerTV collective and a part-timer organizer for her union, the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY. She has been co-chair of several academic/activist conferences and workshops, including Sex Work Matters: Beyond Divides and the Second Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference. Alys Willman is a feminist economist specializing in gender, violence and illicit markets. She is the author of "What’s Money Got to Do With It? Commercial Sex and Risky Behavior in Managua, Nicaragua", and numerous articles in both academic and grassroots publications. She has produced one documentary, “Mateando en la Gran Manzana,” on Argentine immigration to New York. Ms. Willman has worked in a dozen countries throughout Latin America with NGOs, the United Nations and the World Bank. She holds a doctorate in Urban and Public Policy from The New School University in New York.
About the BookSex Work Matters brings sex workers, scholars and activists together to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers theoretical discussions as well empirical case studies, providing new ways to link theory with lived experiences. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that readers weary of the sensational and often salacious treatment of the sex industry in the media and literature will find refreshing. The book will equip any reader with new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry, challenging readers to explore the topic of sex work in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions. What People Have Said About the Book'Sex Work Matters is destined to become a classic in its field, offering fresh new perspectives on romantic and economic taboos in the lives of sex workers. The future of research on erotic commerce depends on these powerful voices, informed arguments and timeless ideas.' - Tracy Quan, author, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl and Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, www.tracyquan.net Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond the Sex in Sex Work - Alys Willman and Antonia Levy Part 1. Beyond Divides: New Frameworks for Understanding the Sex Industry 1. Sex Work Now: What the Blurring Boundaries around the Sex Industry Means for Sex Work, Research and Activism - Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck 2. The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research - Laura Agustín 3. The Meaning of the Whore: How Feminist Theories on Prostitution Shape Research on Female Sex Workers - Juline A. Koken Part 2. Managing Multiple Roles 4. To Love, Honour, and Strip: An Investigation of Exotic Dancer Romantic Relationships - Mindy S. Bradley-Engen and Carrie M. Hobbs 5. Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution - Kerwin Kaye 6. enforced ab/normalcy: the sexworker hijras and the (re)appropriation of s/he identity - Mashrur Shahid Hossain Part 3. Money and Sex 7. Let's Talk About Money - Alys Willman 8. Show Me the Money: A Sex Worker Reflects on Research into the Sex Industry - Jo Weldon 9. Selling Sex: Women's Participation in the Sex Industry - Melissa Petro Part 4. Sex Work and the State 10. Pimping the Pueblo: State Regulated Commercial Sex in Neoliberal Mexico - Patty Kelly 11. Deviant Girls, Small-Scale Entrepreneurs and the Regulation of German Sex Workers - Anne Dölemeyer, Rebecca Pates, Daniel Schmidt 12. Sex Work, Communities and Public Policy in the UK - Maggie O'Neill and Jane Pitcher Part 5. Organizing Beyond Divides 13. Sex Workers' Rights Activism in Europe: Orientations from Brussels - Giulia Garofalo Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries in Sex Work Activism and Research - Melissa Ditmore About the EditorsMelissa Ditmore is a post-doctoral fellow at NDRI. She has investigated ethics in research, the effects of police raids on sex workers and trafficked persons, and violence against sex workers. She edited the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (Greenwood Press, 2006). She is an author on the three reports produced by the Sex Workers Project. Melissa Ditmore has written about sex work, migration and trafficking for The Lancet and SIECUS Report. She is a contributor to Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered (Paradigm, 2005) and The Affective Turn (Duke, 2007.) She has spoken about prostitution, migration rights and research ethics at the United Nations, the International Conference on HIV/AIDS, Columbia University, Cornell University, Hong Kong City University and numerous academic and political conferences. Antonia Levy is a PhD candidate and adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York. Her research interests include political sociology, gender and sexuality, social movements and activism, as well as visual sociology; her thesis focuses on the polyamory movement in Germany and the US. Her work as social justice activist centres around issues related to women’s liberation and sexual rights, labour, as well as community media. Currently, she is a member of the PapertigerTV collective and a part-timer organizer for her union, the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY. She has been co-chair of several academic/activist conferences and workshops, including Sex Work Matters: Beyond Divides and the Second Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference. Alys Willman is a feminist economist specializing in gender, violence and illicit markets. She is the author of "What’s Money Got to Do With It? Commercial Sex and Risky Behavior in Managua, Nicaragua", and numerous articles in both academic and grassroots publications. She has produced one documentary, “Mateando en la Gran Manzana,” on Argentine immigration to New York. Ms. Willman has worked in a dozen countries throughout Latin America with NGOs, the United Nations and the World Bank. She holds a doctorate in Urban and Public Policy from The New School University in New York. |
