Description
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Section I: Sex Wars; Chapter 1 The Meaning of Sex; Chapter 2 Sexual Slavery; Section II: Working It; Chapter 3 The Emotional Labor of Sex; Chapter 4 Locating Difference; Section III: Strategic Responses; Chapter 5 Prohibition and Informal Tolerance; Chapter 6 Legalization, Regulation, and Licensing; Chapter 7 Sex Worker Self-Advocacy; Chapter 8 Compromising Positions;
