Negotiating Sex Work : Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism /
Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimized, the popular media and our political leaders emphasize sex work as exclusively exploitative. In Negotiating Sex Work, Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic present a series of essays that depict sex work as an issue far more complex than generally perceived. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781452941172 (electronic bk.) 1452941173 (electronic bk.) |