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Pre-text Sex work, research & power Outline Theoretical bases & spaces Sexual subcultures Globalising sexualities & identity politics Global restructuring & sex worker identities AIDS discourses Identity politics, subculture & space Thai sex workers in Sydney Arriving in Sydney Background of Thai workers Working conditions & health Clients & the sex industry hierarchy Dying for a fuck: AIDS in Indonesia Sexuality & sex work in the regime of truth The invention of AIDS in Indonesia New emerging sexualities Living safely: owning the AIDS issue Summary Let them take ecstasy: Class & Jakarta lesbians Sex, class & discourse Western labels & Jakarta juices Where are the lesbians in gay Jakarta? Global gay style & mutual incomprehension Style & subculture: sex, drugs & HIV New emerging sexualities & the Islamic backlash Power & multiple identities Images of sex work in Asia Bondage & imagined bodies Stereotyping & sex tourism Child prostitution Local sex industries Like hamburgers & catsup Free or forced prostitution? Imagined bodies & identities Debt bondage & trafficking (don't believe the hype) Defining trafficking A modern form of slavery Labour migration or erotic-pathetic servitude Beijing Summary AIDS discourses & practices Peers & queers -- Part 1: SWOP, Sydney How to be a risk group Queers & other peers Peer educators in a paradox Peers & queers -- Part 2: Southeast Asia Going overboard with the peer model Commercial sex in a hot climate Minding your peers & queers -- conclusions Conclusion: Can the sex worker speak? Human rights for sex workers Life's a beach: Ruling the margins Beyond AIDS Asia-Pacific networking Functional conflict as best practice Definitions used by sex-worker organsiations Declaration of Asia-Pacific network of sex workers Glossary Bibliography

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