Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

Ditmore, Melissa Hope (Editor)/ Levy, Antonia (Editor)/ Willman, Alys (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1848134347 / ISBN 13: 9781848134348

Published by Zed Books, 2010

About this Item

320 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848134347
• ISBN 13: 9781848134348
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.4 kilograms

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Synopsis

Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists 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 the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry.

The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that explores the topic in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions. Readers weary of the sensational and often salacious treatment of the sex industry in the media and literature will find Sex Work Matters refreshing.

About the Author

Melissa Hope Ditmore is the coordinator and founder of the Trafficked Persons Rights Project, a consultant on trafficking, and a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Women and Society, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.


Melissa Hope Ditmore is the coordinator and founder of the Trafficked Persons Rights Project and a consultant on trafficking.