Sex Workers In The Maritimes Talk Back

Author : Leslie Ann Jeffrey,Gayle MacDonald
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774840309

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Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back by Leslie Ann Jeffrey,Gayle MacDonald Pdf

Sex workers are often the "objects" of study for academics and policy makers. Theories about their lives and the policies that affect their work are usually developed without input from the sex workers themselves, as they are rarely seen as capable of analyzing the social and political world in which they work. In this book, however, sex workers set the tone. Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald interview sex workers in three Maritime cities and those who work around them: police, health-care providers, community workers/advocates, members of neighbourhood associations, and politicians. The sex workers discuss such issues as violence and safety, health and risk, politics and policy, media influence, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives and expressing sentiments refreshingly at odds with commonly held opinions. Given recent Parliamentary recommendations to decriminalize prostitution, Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back represents a timely shift to public discussions about sex work. Engaging and accessible, this book will be of interest to public policy practitioners, students of social and political science, community advocates, police, and sex workers and their families.

Author : Angela Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317054610

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Sister Wives, Surrogates and Sex Workers by Angela Campbell Pdf

Did she choose that?’ Or, more normatively, ’Why would she choose that?’ This book critiques and offers an alternative to these questions, which have traditionally framed law and policy discussions circulating around controversial genderized practices. It examines the simplicity and incompleteness of choice-based rhetoric and of presumptions that women’s conduct is shaped, in an absolute way, either by choice or by coercion. This book develops an analytical framework that aims to discern the meaning and value that women may ascribe to morally ambiguous practices. An analysis of law’s approach to polygamy, surrogacy and sex work, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, provides a basis for evaluating the choice-coercion binary and for contemplating alternate modes for assessing, from a law and policy standpoint, the palatability of social practices that appear pernicious to women. Weaving together interdisciplinary research, an innovative analytical framework for assessing choices ostensibly harmful to women, and a critique of the legal rules governing such choices, this book bears relevance for students, scholars, practicing jurists and policymakers seeking a richer understanding of conduct that moves women to the margins of law and society.

Author : Colette Parent,Chris Bruckert,Patrice Corriveau,Maria Nengeh Mensah,Louise Toupin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780774826136

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Sex Work by Colette Parent,Chris Bruckert,Patrice Corriveau,Maria Nengeh Mensah,Louise Toupin Pdf

In the early twentieth century, abolitionists sought to stamp out sex work by penalizing all involved. In the generation that followed, neo-abolitionists looked at the sex industry from a feminist perspective, claiming that workers were victims caught in a patriarchal matrix. Yet both agreed that the industry was a destructive and corrupting force that should be eliminated. In this radical volume, five academics and activists convey their vision of prostitution as work, reclaiming the place of sex workers in the discussion of their lives and their work, and opposing discourses that position them as merely victims without agency.

Author : Susan Dewey,Tiantian Zheng,Treena Orchard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319257631

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Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China by Susan Dewey,Tiantian Zheng,Treena Orchard Pdf

Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from China, Canada, and the United States to argue that criminalization results in a totalizing set of negative consequences for sex workers’ health, safety, and human rights. Such consequences are enabled through the operations of an exclusionary regime, a dense coalescence of punitive forces that involves both governance, in the form of the criminal justice system and other state agents, and dynamic interpersonal encounters in which individuals both enforce and negotiate stigma-related discrimination against sex workers. Chapter Two demonstrates how criminalization harms sex workers by isolating their work to potentially dangerous locations, fostering mistrust of authority figures, further limiting their abilities to find legal work and housing, and restricting possibilities for collective rights-based organizing. Criminalized sex workers report police harassment, seizure of condoms, and adversarial police-sex worker relations that enable others to abuse them with impunity. Chapter Three describes how sex workers negotiate these restrictions on their rights and personal autonomy via their arrest avoidance and client management strategies, self-treatment of health issues, selective mutual aid, rights-based organizing, and entrenchment in sex work or other criminalized activities. Chapter Four describes how researchers working in countries or locales that criminalize sex work face ethical concerns as well as barriers to their work at the practical, institutional, and political levels.

Author : Shawna Ferris
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781772120219

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Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities by Shawna Ferris Pdf

“Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and some even lose their lives. Ferris aims to reveal the cultural dimensions of this discrimination through literary and art-critical theory, legal and sociological research, and activist intervention. Canadian cities are striving for high safety ratings by eliminating crime, which includes “cleaning” urban areas of the street sex industry. Ironically, sex workers also want to live and work in a safe environment. Ferris questions these sanitizing political agendas, reviews exclusionary legislative and police initiatives, and examines media representations of sex workers. This book has much to offer to educators and activists, sex workers and anti-violence organizations, and academics studying women, cultural, gender, or indigenous issues.

Author : Susan Dewey,Isabel Crowhurst,Chimaraoke Izugbara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351133890

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Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research by Susan Dewey,Isabel Crowhurst,Chimaraoke Izugbara Pdf

Author : Carisa R. Showden,Samantha Majic
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452941189

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Negotiating Sex Work by Carisa R. Showden,Samantha Majic Pdf

Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimized, the popular media and our political leaders emphasize sex work as exclusively exploitative. In Negotiating Sex Work, Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic present a series of essays that depict sex work as an issue far more complex than generally perceived. Positions on sex work are primarily divided between those who consider that selling sexual acts is legitimate work and those who consider it a form of exploitation. Organized into three parts, Negotiating Sex Work rejects this either/or framework and offers instead diverse and compelling contributions that aim to reframe these viewpoints. Part I addresses how knowledge about sex work and sex workers is generated. The next section explores how nations and political actors who claim to protect individuals in sex work often further marginalize them. Finally, part III examines sex workers’ own political-organizational efforts to combat laws and policies that deem them deviant, sinful, or total victims. A timely and necessary intervention into sex work debates, this volume challenges how policy makers and the broader public regard sex workers’ capacity to advocate for their own interests. Contributors: Cheryl Auger; Sarah Beer, Dawson College, Montreal; Michele Tracy Berger, U of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro; Raven Bowen; Gregg Bucken-Knapp, U of Gothenburg, Sweden; Ana Paula da Silva, Federal U of Viçosa; Valerie Feldman; Gregor Gall, U of Bradford; Kathleen Guidroz, Georgetown U; Annie Hill, U of Minnesota; Johan Karlsson Schaffer, U of Oslo; Edith Kinney, Mills College; Yasmin Lalani; Pia Levin; Alexandra Lutnick; Tamara O’Doherty, U of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia; Joyce Outshoorn, U of Leiden; Francine Tremblay, Concordia U, Montreal.

Author : Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich
Publisher : Roma TrE-Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788897524458

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Sex and the contract by Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich Pdf

Author : Colette Parent,Chris Bruckert,Patrice Corriveau,Maria Nengeh Mensah,Louise Toupin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774826143

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Sex Work by Colette Parent,Chris Bruckert,Patrice Corriveau,Maria Nengeh Mensah,Louise Toupin Pdf

In the early twentieth century, abolitionists sought to stamp out sex work by penalizing all involved. In the generation that followed, neo-abolitionists looked at the sex industry from a feminist perspective, claiming that workers were victims caught in a patriarchal matrix. Yet both agreed that the industry was a destructive and corrupting force that should be eliminated. In this radical volume, five academics and activists convey their vision of prostitution as work, reclaiming the place of sex workers in the discussion of their lives and their work, and opposing discourses that position them as merely victims without agency.

Author : Emily van der Meulen,Elya M. Durisin,Victoria Love
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774824514

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Selling Sex by Emily van der Meulen,Elya M. Durisin,Victoria Love Pdf

Despite being dubbed “the world’s oldest profession,” prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often criminalized, sensationalized, and polemicized. In Selling Sex, Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love present a more nuanced view of the sex industry. They bring together a vast collection of voices – including feminists, researchers, advocates, and sex workers of every stripe – to challenge dominant narratives surrounding sex work. Presenting a variety of perspectives on such diverse topics as social stigma, police violence, labour organizing, and human trafficking, Selling Sex is an eye-opening, challenging, and necessary book.

Author : SJ Dodd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000408652

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The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities by SJ Dodd Pdf

- Includes contributions from a wide range of international authors. - The first book to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective. - Provides a holistic overview of the topic by including both diverse and inclusive perspectives.

Author : Shayna Plaut,Neil Bilotta,Lara Rosenoff Gauvin,Christina Clark-Kazak,Maritza Felices-Luna
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774868532

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Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work by Shayna Plaut,Neil Bilotta,Lara Rosenoff Gauvin,Christina Clark-Kazak,Maritza Felices-Luna Pdf

Human rights work takes place everywhere, every day, and in every way, but good intentions don’t always bring the intended results. Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage in a series of overlapping conversations about the complex messiness of ethics in practice, and the implications for human rights work in academia and beyond. Contributors share their ethical dilemmas. How did they evaluate a situation and ways to resolve it? Where did or didn’t they seek guidance? What might they have done differently? This thoughtful work proposes that personal reflection and sometimes uncomfortable discussion are essential components of critical human rights practice.

Author : Patrizia Gentile,Gary Kinsman,L. Pauline Rankin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774833370

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We Still Demand! by Patrizia Gentile,Gary Kinsman,L. Pauline Rankin Pdf

We Still Demand! recovers the vibrant histories of sex and gender activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Highlighting queer, trans, sex-worker, and feminist struggles, this activist history focuses on remembering these struggles and on rethinking the boundaries of sex and gender activism and scholarship. By recovering the history of activism and outlining contemporary challenges, We Still Demand! provides a vital rewriting of the history of sex and gender activism in Canada that will enlighten current struggles and activate new forms of resistance.

Author : Kelly Fritsch,Jeffrey Monaghan,Emily van der Meulen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867153

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Disability Injustice by Kelly Fritsch,Jeffrey Monaghan,Emily van der Meulen Pdf

Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous – even deadly – for disabled people. Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and alternatives to confinement. The contributors confront challenging topics such as the pathologizing of difference as deviance; eugenics and crime control; criminalization based on biased physical and mental health approaches; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting discrimination. This provocative collection highlights how, with deeper understanding of disability, we can challenge the practices of crime control and the processes of criminalization.

Author : Chris Bruckert,Colette Parent
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487517427

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Getting Past 'the Pimp' by Chris Bruckert,Colette Parent Pdf

The issue of third parties in the sex industry – individuals who are neither the client nor the service provider – has become especially urgent in our current socio-political context. Surprisingly, in spite of an emergence of critical scholarship on the sex industry, as well as recommendations by key governmental committees, little attention has been extended to examining the role of individuals labelled pimps, procurers, and traffickers. Addressing the function of third parties on the street and indoors, Getting Past 'the Pimp' incorporates solid empirical evidence including documentary analysis, 75 interviews with third parties, and 52 interviews with sex workers to unpack the roles and relationships of third parties in three sectors of the sex industry‒ incall/outcall, stripping, and street-based prostitution. Contrary to prevailing stereotypes that portray third parties as inherently abusive and controlling, these workers fulfill important roles and provide vital services as associates, fee-for-service hires, and agency owners or managers responsible for scheduling and arranging transportation and security. The sex industry, like mainstream businesses, rarely depend exclusively on client and worker to operate efficiently, and safely.