{"product_id":"producing-the-acceptable-sex-worker-an-analysis-of-media-representations-9781538165140","title":"Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker: An Analysis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eProducing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general public draw their understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, the book considers an emerging discourse of acceptability for some sex workers, primarily those who do low-volume indoor work. Their acceptability is established in comparison with other kinds of sex workers, resulting in a redistribution but not a reduction of stigma. The conditions attached to acceptability reflect persistent anxieties about prostitution: workers who are acceptable must give the impression that the sexual labour of the job is enjoyable and virtually indistinguishable from their personal life, eliding the work involved. Unacceptable workers have existing marginalisations magnified by their association with the industry, with migrant sex workers produced as devious or exploited, and transgender women’s involvement with the industry used to deny them the right to public space. The conditions attached to acceptability reveal how neoliberal postfeminist discourses of choice, desire, authenticity, and personal responsibility inform the formation of sex work in the public eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex and Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex work in New Zealand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex work as work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearcher positionality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStigma and the Sex Industry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is stigma?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is stigma applied to sex work?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does this stigma affect sex workers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat approaches exist to resist this stigma?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex Work in the News Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe role of the media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople don’t know sex workers, but they watch TV\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedia analysis and news media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Zealand’s media landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Objects of Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExisting Research into Media Representations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaming the Sex Working Subject\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho Speaks and Who is Spoken About\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscursive Slippage and Questions of Voice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImages and Motifs of Sex Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Intertextuality and Responding to Stigma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\/Visibility as Acceptability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNormative Identity Categories and Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sex Worker as Disease Vector\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex Work and the Assumption of Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Constrained Nature of Intertextual Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Comparative Acceptability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCisgender and Transgender Sex Workers: Vulnerable or Vilified\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransgender workers as a physical threat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransgender workers as a moral contagion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMigrant Sex Workers and Narratives of Economic Scarcity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early 2010s: the Rugby World Cup and Student Sex Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMigrant sex workers and trafficking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMigrant sex workers as an economic threat in 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndoor Workers, Work Volume, and Class Position\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Denying Legitimate Labor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMigrant Workers: Deceptive or Exploited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreet-Based Sex Work: Disrupting ‘Legitimate Businesses’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndoor Sex Work: A Conflation of Work and Play\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex work as temporary or supplementary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvisible affective labour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnything But Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Neoliberal Discourses of Choice and Pleasure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSexual Labour, Sexual Pleasure, and the Right ‘Choice’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Un\/Availability of Choices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemoving Management from the Picture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Making of the Sex Worker, the Remaking of Stigma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedia Texts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041223835991,"sku":"9781538165140","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538165140.jpg?v=1750949422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/producing-the-acceptable-sex-worker-an-analysis-of-media-representations-9781538165140","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}