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Women Performing Erotic Labor

Bibliographic Data

ID19909666
AuthorsWendy Chapkis (0000-0002-1488-7998, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-12-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byLive Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor, Kim Price, 1998
VenueLive Sex Acts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315811512
OpenAlexW4231290043
Open LibraryOL38733990M
ISBN9781315811512
LanguageEN
Citations received184

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

Aesthetics · Art · Depiction · Disadvantage · Expansive · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Human sexuality · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Research methodology · Sex work · Sex workers · Silence · Sociology · Visual arts · Work (physics) · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Feminist ethics · Prostitutes · Prostitution · Sexual ethics

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