{"product_id":"producing-the-acceptable-sex-worker-an-analysis-of-media-representations-9781538168349","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 draws its understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, this 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 aboutsex work: 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 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\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eProducing the Acceptable Sex Worker provides a compelling account of how sex workers are represented and produced in New Zealand media to create the ‘accepted’ and ‘unaccepted’ sex worker. Easterbrook-Smith very eloquently argues that racist, classist, transphobic and xenophobic media reporting has functioned to reinforce a ‘whorearchy’ amongst sex workers through the shifting of stigma. The book is a thought-provoking read from beginning to end and a must-read for all who have an interest in sex work.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dr. Gillian Abel, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sensitive, multi-layered account of what stigma looks like, how it is produced, and how it operates through media portrayals of sex workers and debates about sex work itself. Skillfully traces the function of multiple discourses—from sex positivity to transmisogyny—to reproduce stigma and privilege. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker is written to be read widely—clear, engaging, poignant, and forthright; a useful volume for scholars and activists both in and out of the academy.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Carisa R. Showden, University of Auckland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important book offers a nuanced analysis of how media draw on a cultural imaginary of the sex industry to produce and reify the stigmas associated with sex work. Easterbrook-Smith deftly reveals the implicit hierarchies of “acceptable” and “unacceptable” sex workers and how intersectional oppressions of gender, race, class, and citizenship status are implicated in this stratification. This book should be key reading for sex work and labour researchers and activists, students of sociology and communication, journalists writing about sex work, and anyone concerned with the rights and legal protections owed to people doing sex work.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stacey Hannem, professor, Wilfrid Laurier University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\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":51041230389591,"sku":"9781538168349","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538168349.jpg?v=1750949446","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/producing-the-acceptable-sex-worker-an-analysis-of-media-representations-9781538168349","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}