Sex Work: Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers (Sexuality Stud) - Hardcover

Parent, Colette

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9780774826112: Sex Work: Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers (Sexuality Stud)

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ISBN 10: 0774826118 ISBN 13: 9780774826112

Publisher: UBC Press, 2013

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In the early twentieth century, abolitionists sought to stamp out sex work by penalizing all involved. In the generation that followed, neo-abolitionists looked at the sex industry from a feminist perspective, claiming that workers were victims caught in a patriarchal matrix. Yet both agreed that the industry was a destructive and corrupting force that should be eliminated. In this radical volume, five academics and activists convey their vision of prostitution as work, reclaiming the place of sex workers in the discussion of their lives and their work, and opposing discourses that position them as merely victims without agency.

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Book Description:

A radical reconsideration of sex work that looks beyond moral arguments to the opinions of the workers.

About the Author:

Colette Parent is professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa. Chris Bruckert and Patrice Corriveau are associate professors criminology at the University of Ottawa. Maria Nengeh Mensah is professor at the Ecole de travail social and the Institut de recherches et d’�tudes f�ministes at the Universit� du Qu�bec a Montr�al. Louise Toupin is an independent researcher and lecturer on feminist studies in political science at the Universit� du Qu�bec a Montr�al. K�the Roth has been a literary translator, working mainly in historical non-fiction, for more than twenty years.

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