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Organizing for Sex Workers' Rights in Montréal

Resistance and Advocacy
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 2020

Summary

This book is based on a case study about Stella, l’amie de Maimie a Montréal 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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Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9389-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9390-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
205
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Foreword No access
    4. Acronyms No access
  1. Introduction: The Challenges of Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights No access Pages 1 - 24
  2. 1 Montréal’s Sex Industry, 1810–2000 No access Pages 25 - 36
  3. 2 Stella No access Pages 37 - 70
  4. 3 Sex Work and the Metropolis No access Pages 71 - 96
  5. 4 Stella’s Forum XXX No access Pages 97 - 114
  6. 5 Transformation of the Landscape for Sex Worker Organizing in Canada No access Pages 115 - 144
  7. 6 Final Reflections: The Trouble with Sex in Sex Work No access Pages 145 - 164
  8. Documents Consulted No access Pages 165 - 182
  9. Bibliography No access Pages 183 - 198
  10. Index No access Pages 199 - 204
  11. About the Author No access Pages 205 - 205

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