Sex work and the claim for grassroots legislation

Bibliographic Data

ID15098401
AuthorsMarisa Natalia Fassi (University of Milan, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume17
Issuesup1
Pages74-84
Publication date2015-05-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2014.990517
PMID25567002
OpenAlexW2056725032
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

The aim of this paper is to contribute to understanding of legal models that aim to control sex work, and the policy implications of these, by discussing the experience of developing a grassroots legislation bill proposal by organised sex workers in Córdoba, Argentina. The term 'grassroots legislation' here refers to a legal response that derives from the active involvement of local social movements and thus incorporates the experiential knowledge and claims of these particular social groupings in the proposal. The experience described in this paper excludes approaches that render sex workers as passive victims or as deviant perpetrators; instead, it conceives of sex workers in terms of their political subjectivity and of political subjectivity in its capacity to speak, to decide, to act and to propose. This means challenging current patterns of knowledge/power that give superiority to 'expert knowledge' above and beyond the claims, experiences, knowledge and needs of sex workers themselves as meaningful sources for law making

Epistemology · Experiential knowledge · Experiential learning · Grassroots · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Legislation · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sex work · Sociology · Subjectivity · Work (physics · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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