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Introduction: The Politics of Sex WorkCarisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic

Part I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics of Location Approach for Studying Sex WorkMichele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team StudyAlexandra Lutnick3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in VancouverRaven Bowen and Tamara O’Doherty

Part II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution PolicyAnnie Hill5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of “Ugly Bodies”Cheryl Auger 6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in BrazilThaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women’s Rights and Thailand’s Response to Human TraffickingEdith Kinney8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the NetherlandsJoyce Outshoorn9. Comrades, Push The Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in FinlandGregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, and Pia Levin

Part III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex WorkersGregor Gall11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the BlogosphereValerie Feldman12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Women Sex Worker Activists Creating CommunityYasmin Lalani13. Sex Worker Rights Organizations and Government Funding in CanadaSarah Beer and Francine TremblayContributorsIndex

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 07/04/2014
      ISBN13: 9780816689590, 978-0816689590
      ISBN10: 0816689598
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Contents

      AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations

      Introduction: The Politics of Sex WorkCarisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic

      Part I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics of Location Approach for Studying Sex WorkMichele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team StudyAlexandra Lutnick3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in VancouverRaven Bowen and Tamara O’Doherty

      Part II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution PolicyAnnie Hill5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of “Ugly Bodies”Cheryl Auger 6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in BrazilThaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women’s Rights and Thailand’s Response to Human TraffickingEdith Kinney8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the NetherlandsJoyce Outshoorn9. Comrades, Push The Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in FinlandGregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, and Pia Levin

      Part III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex WorkersGregor Gall11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the BlogosphereValerie Feldman12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Women Sex Worker Activists Creating CommunityYasmin Lalani13. Sex Worker Rights Organizations and Government Funding in CanadaSarah Beer and Francine TremblayContributorsIndex

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