Making Work, Making Trouble
Prostitution as a Social Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11090165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Jenne (0000-0002-9395-0499, corresponding author), Valerie Jenness, Deborah R Brock |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 613 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution as a Social Problem, Deborah Brock, 1998 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2655052 |
| OpenAlex | W2093959297 |
| Language | EN |
Why have our efforts to 'clean up' prostitution failed? Even new programs, such as 'John Schools' for customers and training in life skills for service providers, have been ineffective. Deborah Brock asks if our approach to prostitution is fundamentally flawed. We generally think of it as a social problem, but prostitutes see it as a work relation. Anti-prostitution campaigns and attempts to regulate the sex trade have been made and re-made over the past few decades. In the 1970s and 1980s urban development and new policing strategies displaced workers from established prostitution strolls. Movements for social and sexual liberation turned the business of selling sex into a complex political issue. The Canadian state was confronted with a range of regulatory approaches, advocated by competing interest groups. Deborah Brock examines how prostitution in Canada has been produced as a social problem. Contending that 'social problems do not exist objectively,' Brock interprets the role of various actors in mounting the urban sex trade spectacle: the media, feminist organizations, rights advocates, residents' groups, and state agents and agencies such as the police, politicians, the courts, and government commissions. Making Work, Making Trouble is the first critical survey of prostitution in Canada. It provides much needed context to all groups enmeshed in the melTe over territory and rights and should become a standard source in Canadian criminology
Criminology · Law and economics · Political science · Sex work · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Medicine · Sex work and related issues
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Community-Academic Research on Hard-to-Reach Populations
Pimp Control and Violence
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Weighing the Consequences of a Deviant Career
Stigmatisation du travail du sexe et identité des travailleurs et travailleuses du sexe
Negotiating Sex Work
Sex worker health
Who Elected Oxfam?
Taxes, rights and regimentation
Owning Risk
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It's Not Only for the Money
Why Become a Pornography Actress
Sex and (Evacuation from) the City
John Court
Carceral politics as gender justice? The 'traffic in women' and neoliberal circuits of crime, sex, and rights
Les travailleuses du sexe et la vie économique
Sex Work in the Forest City
Competing claims of victimhood? Foreign and domestic victims of trafficking in the United States
Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution
Male Prostitution in the Twentieth Century
Youth Homelessness and Social Stigma
Les identités sexuelles et les travailleuses de l'industrie du sexe à l'aube du nouveau millénaire
Making a place for escort work
La politique carcérale comme justice de genre
Decriminalization of Sex Work
Victimization in Off-Street Sex Industry Work
Violence and the Outlaw Status of (Street) Prostitution in Canada
Streets, strolls and spots
A "Perversion" of Choice
Mis/representation & Silence
Le travail du sexe dans les établissements de services érotiques
Licensing Sex Work
If I′m gonna hack capitalism”
Leaving the Streets
Contending with Violence
| Highly cited | No |
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