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Realising Justice for Sex Workers
An Agenda for Change
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2018
Summary
In the past two decades, feminist politics on prostitution has become more polarised and ideological. On the one hand, those on the radical spectrum of feminist politics have fought long and hard to criminalise sex purchase with the intention of ultimately abolishing prostitution. Other feminists have lobbied the state to recognise and institutionalise sex workers’ human rights.
The collection is both a critical intervention in and a re-orientation of the schism in contemporary feminist prostitution politics. Contributors will use this schism as a platform from which to challenge current debates, and ‘think’ an alternative sex worker-centred politics for social justice. By placing sex workers’ lived experiences of prostitution at the centre of the conversation, the book rejects the hegemony of neo-abolitionism as the solution to the ‘problem’ of sex work.
The book brings international, trans-disciplinary scholars together to address a rights-based agenda for sex work law and policy and consequently for sex workers’ lives. This collection offers an invaluable resource on the subject of how sex workers experience injustices and how we can mitigate this globally through a transformative vision of social justice.
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-78660-394-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-78660-396-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
234
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword. Agenda for Change No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction. Social Justice through an Agenda for Change No access
Chapter 1. Racism, Xenophobia and Hegemonic Masculinity: The Nordic Model of Criminalising the Purchase of Sex No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 2. The Impact of Criminalisation on Indoor Sex Workers in England and Wales and the Need for Legislative Change No access Pages 21 - 40
Chapter 3. Feminists, Step Back! (Re)centring and Supporting Sex Workers’ Political Projects No access Pages 41 - 60
Chapter 4. Selling Sex: What Influences or Displaces Perceptions of Agency? No access Pages 61 - 80
Chapter 5. Universities as Spaces of Sexual Diversity: Students Engaged in Sex Work in Amsterdam No access Pages 81 - 102
Chapter 6. Examining and Challenging the Everyday Power Relations: Affecting Sex Workers’ Health No access Pages 103 - 122
Chapter 7. Decriminalisation and Social Justice: A Public Health Perspective on Sex Work No access Pages 123 - 140
Chapter 8. Turning Perspectives on Migrant Sex Workers Inside Out: From Criminalisation and Victimisation to Rights-Based Law and Policy No access Pages 141 - 160
Chapter 9. Sex Worker Rights, Recognition and Resistance: Towards a ‘Real Politics of Justice’ No access Pages 161 - 182
Chapter 10. Into the Light: A Model of Justice for Workers’ Rights in the Shadow and Gig Economy No access Pages 183 - 202
Chapter 11. Reconceptualising On-Street Sex Work as a Complex Affective Social Assemblage No access Pages 203 - 222
