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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sex and Stigmalays the groundwork for greater understanding of the everyday routines and work-life considerations of legal sex workers. This book is both significant and distinctive for the authors ability to take a phenomenon that typically is considered hidden and stigmatized and attach real faces, lives, workplace, and home issues to these women. Insightful and illuminating." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell,editor of Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives
"Sex and Stigmais an engaging and informative book, blending first-person perspectives with feminist scholarship todemystify the brothel as a workplace. A smart and innovative study,readers will benefit fromthe authors blend of scholarly expertise, theirunique access to a difficult-to-reach population, and the inclusion of multiple sex workers perspectives." -- Shira Tarrant,author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know
"Pushing beyond the well-trod debate of whether prostitution should exist at all, the authors instead emphasize the issues of labor, stigma, secrecy, privacy, and discrimination within legal prostitution — issues that the authors rightly note are generally deemphasized in comparison with headline-grabbing news and analysis of the illegal sex trade." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *
"The valuable research presented by these authors [...] is leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of women who work in this highly regulated form of sex work." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *
