基本説明
Focusing on the body and sex in different forms of work, it explores the labour process, workplace relations and regulations and resistance.
Full Description
Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment.
Key Benefits:
- The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work
- Written by leading international experts
- Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics
Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.
Contents
PART ONE: THEORISING BODY/SEX WORK
Introduction: The Body/Sex/Work Nexus; Rachel Lara Cohen, Kate Hardy, Teela Sanders, Carol Wolkowitz
Touching Moments: An Analysis of the Skillful Search for Dignity within Body Work Interactions; Marek Korczynski
Work Equal to Any Other, but Not the Same as Any Other: The Politics of Sexual Labour, the Body and Intercorporeality; Kate Hardy
PART TWO: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF BODY/SEX WORK
Legal Constructions of Body Work; Ann Stewart
Gender, Emotional Labour and Interactive Body Work: Negotiating Flesh and Fantasy in Sex Workers' Labour Practices; Barb Brents, Crystal Jackson
The Frontline Costs of the Southern Cross' Decline; Joe Greener
Hairdressing/undressing: Comparing Labour Relations in Self-employed Body Work; Teela Sanders, Rachel Lara Cohen and Kate Hard
PART THREE: SEXUALISING BODIES IN THE LABOUR PROCESS
Altered Bodies, Engineered Careers: A Comparison of Body Technologies in Corporate and Do-It-Yourself Pornographic Productions; Lori Fazzino
From Erotic Capital to Erotic Knowledge: Body, Sexuality and Gender as Symbolic Skills in Phone Sex Work; Giulia Selmi
'What Does a Manicure Have to Do With Sex?': Racialised Sexualisation of Body Labor in Routine Beauty Services; Miliann Kang
Touch in Holistic Massage: Ambiguities and Boundaries; Carrie Purcell
PART FOUR: DISCIPLINING AND RESISTANT BODIES
Racing Bodies; Janet Miller
Body work and Ageing: The Biomedicalization of Nutrition Practices; Giulia Rodeschini
Getting the Bodies of the Workers to the Bodies of the Clients: the Role of the Rota in Domiciliary Care; Gemma Wibberley
Saliva, Semen and Sanity: Flat-working Women in Hong Kong and Bodily Management Strategies; Olive Cheung.
