Serving Sex Workers and Promoting Democratic Engagement
Rethinking Nonprofits' Role in American Civic and Political Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6318795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Majic (0000-0002-5956-6506, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 821-839 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592711003951 |
| OpenAlex | W2334633399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 71 |
In debates about promoting civic and political engagement in America, political scientists are often skeptical about the role of nonprofit organizations offering health and social services in the US because they are constrained by the tax code and grant agreements. However, I argue that by focusing on what I term social movement-borne nonprofits, we can see how these organizations may engage (marginalized) communities and participate in political activities. To illustrate, I consider the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) and the St. James Infirmary (SJI), two San Francisco Bay-area nonprofits created by prostitute-rights activists that offer HIV/AIDS and other health services to sex workers. Drawing on multi-method qualitative research on CAL-PEP and the SJI, I argue that social movement-borne nonprofits engage in political activities through a process of radical institutionalization, whereby they incorporate and advance activist goals within their organizational practices. I theorize the properties of radical institutionalization as “oppositional implementation,” “community engagement,” and “claims-making activities.” My hope is that scholars will test for and further define these properties in order to broaden understandings of nonprofits' evolving role in civic and political life, and in processes of social change
Civic engagement · Democracy · Institutionalisation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Skepticism · Social movement · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues
Covid-19, Stigma, and the Ongoing Marginalization of Sex Workers and their Support Organizations
How Helping Can Reinforce or Attenuate Status Inequalities
Vulnerability as identity facet
What do we mean by “community”? Defining community for civically engaged research
Methodological pluralism in civically engaged research
Do Nonprofit Responses to Social Movements Influence Public Perceptions and Willingness to Support? An Experimental Study
Leveraging Political Resources
Decriminalization and What Else? Alternative Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety, and Rights of Sex Workers
Noncongruent policymaking by cities for citizens with criminal records
Developing networks in disempowered communities
Participating, Observing, Publishing
Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint
Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space
Women's empowerment and power relations
The Civic Voluntarism of “Custodial Citizens
Researching American Muslims
Political Action Versus Personal Action
A Genuine Empowerment or Continued Authority Enhancement? Dynamic Relationships of Community Organisations with the State in Chinese Environmental Justice
Beyond 'Victim-Criminals
You Start with the Youth
Framing Sex Worker Rights
Marginalized Yet Mobilized
Feminist organizations
Survival in the doldrums
Struggle, politics, and reform
Poor People's Movements
Grassroots Warriors
Bearing Witness
Civic Innovation in America
Moving Politics
Sex worker health
Civic Knowledge, Civic Education, and Civic Engagement
Bowling alone
Diminished Democracy
Freedom of Association
The Nonprofit sector
The Color of Gender
Power in Movement
Abandoning the Rhetoric of Independence
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Social Movements in Contentious Politics
Response to Rafael de la Dehesa's review of Moving Politics
The Emergence and Uncertain Outcomes of Prostitutes' Social Movements
The St. James Infirmary
Prostitution
Institutionalizing dissent
Civic engagement in American democracy
Making It Work
Into Our Own Hands
The new attack on sexuality research
Civic Engagement and Civic Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective
Collaborative Governance and Civic Empowerment
Nonprofits and Civic Engagement
Men, Masculinity, and Male Domination
Women's Movement Institutionalization
Premature Obituaries
Political Theory, Political Science and the End of Civic Engagement
Voice and Inequality
Political Knowledge, Political Engagement, and Civic Education
Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Tuning In, Tuning Out
Does Government Funding Suppress Nonprofits' Political Activity
Privatizing the Welfare State
Under Attack, Fighting Back
Emerging Roles of Nonprofit Organizations
The Prospects for Loca Democratic Governance
Criminalization, legalization or decriminalization of sex work
Investing in Democracy
Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State
Community Building and Political Power
Producing Social Capital
Are All Associations Alike
A Nation of Organizers
Citizen Activity
Contradictions in the Gender Subtext of the War on Poverty
Just What Needed to Be Done
Social Groups in Associative Democracy
Nonprofit Incorporation Among Movements of the Poor
Prostitutes' Rights in the United States
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |