To Live Freely in This World
Sex Worker Activism in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19987979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chi Mgbako (corresponding author), Chi Adanna Mgbako |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | To Live Freely in This World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | New York University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18574/nyu/9781479817566.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2340418338 |
| Open Library | OL27435002M |
| ISBN | 9781479817566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
"Sex worker activists throughout Africa are demanding an end to the criminalization of sex work and the recognition of their human rights to safe working conditions, health and justice services, and lives free from violence and discrimination. To Live Freely in This World is the first book to tell the story of the brave activists at the beating heart of the sex workers' rights movement in Africa, the newest and most vibrant face of the global sex workers' rights struggle. African sex worker activists are proving that communities facing human rights abuses are not bereft of agency. They're challenging politicians, religious fundamentalists, and anti-prostitution advocates; confronting the multiple stigmas that affect the diverse members of their communities; engaging in intersectional movement building with similarly marginalized groups; and participating in the larger global sex workers' rights struggle in order to determine their social and political fate. By locating this counter-narrative in Africa, To Live Freely in This World challenges disempowering and one-dimensional depictions of degraded Third World prostitutes and helps fill what has been a gaping hole in feminist scholarship regarding sex work in the African context. Based on original fieldwork in seven African countries, including Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, Chi Adanna Mgbako draws on extensive interviews with over 160 African female and male (cisgender and transgender) sex worker activists, and weaves their voices and experiences into a fascinating, richly-detailed, and powerful examination of the history and continuing activism of this young movement" -- Provided by publisher
American Sports and Literature · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Africa · Civil rights · crimes against · Human rights · Human rights movements · Political activity · Prostitutes
Selling Sex in Kenya
Criminalization and rhetorical nondiscrimination
Not on the Street Where We Live”
The personal is political
Client Power and the Sex Work Transaction
Volume 44
Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa
Assessing the Power of Prostitution Policies to Shift Markets, Attitudes, and Ideologies
Exposed and unprotected
Taking small steps
Rites of Resistance
The moral economy of sex work in Mombasa, Kenya
The Continued Criminality of Selling Sex
Examining hopes, aspirations, and future plans of women in non-brothel-based sex work in Kolkata, India
Peer involvement in service provision
Essential elements of a community empowerment approach to HIV prevention among female sex workers engaged in project Shikamana in Iringa, Tanzania
Sex work and condom use in Soweto, South Africa
Sex work and the beerhall
There’s Massive Pressure to Please Her”
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers
Flying as Self-Expression
When Sex Threatened the State
Going out and making it home
Affective Organizing
Is Sex Work Sex or Work? Forming Collective Identity in Bangalore
We Fit in the Society by Force
Governing with God
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |