Sex Work: Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers

Parent, Colette, et al

ISBN 10: 0774826118 / ISBN 13: 9780774826112

Published by UBC Press, Vancouver & Toronto, 2013

About this Item

No dust jacket. Hardcover. Boards have one or two minor scores. Slight bump on spine foot. Binding is sound and pages are tight and clean throughout. Text is clear. AF.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sex Work: Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers
• Publisher: UBC Press, Vancouver & Toronto
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774826118
• ISBN 13: 9780774826112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gender & Sexuality Studies

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Synopsis

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.

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’études féministes at the Université du Québec a Montréal. Louise Toupin is an independent researcher and lecturer on feminist studies in political science at the Université du Québec a Montréal. Käthe Roth has been a literary translator, working mainly in historical non-fiction, for more than twenty years.