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Book SynopsisReconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.
Stigma is about relationships between people and also sets an interpretative frame whereby people understand and react to situations and actions, and the book is developed and organized to investigate this from various angles. It presents empirical studies that build on and expand the scholarship on stigma and sex work. This means that it contributes to a more complex understanding of stigma in sex work studies. Further, by using the example of sew work to explore how we can best understand the production and consequences of stigma, the book makes a contribution that is relevant for all scholars who work on stigma and stigmatization.
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'Stigma is an occupational hazard for sex workers and their customers throughout the world. They routinely face prejudice, marginalization, and punitive treatment by social institutions, the authorities, and the wider public. This book offers groundbreaking research on key dimensions of stigmatization in various countries, and it also addresses the preconditions for reducing sex work stigma. A major contribution to our understanding of this crucial impediment to the health and safety of those who are involved in sexual commerce.'
Ronald Weitzer, Professor George Washington University, USA
'Questioning the "universalised" nature of "whore stigma", this volume provides insights from sex workers across the globe. From Germany to Japan, Ethiopia to Nevada, what is experienced as stigma in different social and legal practices is scrutinized and further theorised. The book challenges conventional ways of thinking about stigma, making a significant contribution to the literature.'
Teela Sanders, Director of Research and Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK
Table of Contents1. Reconfiguring Stigma in Sex Work Studies and Beyond: Putting Relationality to Work
2. From Social Deviant to Equal Citizen? Stigma and the Decriminalization of Sex Work in New Zealand
3. Problematizing the 'prostitution problem' in Ethiopia: The Stigmatization of Sex Workers through Moral Discourses and Their Representations
4. Prostitution and the politics of respectability: Sex work, Stigma and Representations of the Other
5.Sex Work Activism and Intersectionality: The Role of Stigma in Uniting Sex Workers
6. Struggling with Stigma: Public Recognition as a Double-Edged Sword Among Organized Sex Workers in Denmark
7. Knowing Who is a ‘hustler’: Stigmatization in Service Providers’ First Talks in Germany
8. Reconfiguring Sexuality and Stigma: Perspectives of North American Women in Street-Based Sex Work
9. Resignifying the Client in Search of Respectability
10. The Lady and the Tramp: Management of Stigma in the Nevada Brothel
11. The Historical and Current Stigma of Sex Workers in Japan
