Live sex acts : women performing erotic labor
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Live sex acts : women performing erotic labor
Routledge, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-242) and index
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Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Section I: Sex Wars
- Chapter 1 The Meaning of Sex
- Chapter 2 Sexual Slavery
- Section II: Working It
- Chapter 3 The Emotional Labor of Sex
- Chapter 4 Locating Difference
- Section III: Strategic Responses
- Chapter 5 Prohibition and Informal Tolerance
- Chapter 6 Legalization, Regulation, and Licensing
- Chapter 7 Sex Worker Self-Advocacy
- Chapter 8 Compromising Positions
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