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001 2014030148
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008 140814s2015 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014030148
020 $a9780415704557 (hardback)
020 $z9780203761960 (ebook)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aHQ118$b.Q44 2015
082 00 $a306.74$223
084 $aSOC004000$aSOC012000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aQueer sex work /$cedited by Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher and Nicola Smith.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2015.
300 $axxiv, 293 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge studies in crime and society ;$v14
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices, meanings and embodiments in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new insights into how gender, sex, power, crime, work, migration, space/place, health and intimacy are understood in the context of commercial sexual encounters. Queer Sex Work explores what it might mean to 'be', 'do' and 'think' queer(ly) in the study and practice of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical case studies - including erotic dance venues, online sex working, pornography, grey sexual economies, and BSDM - and offers a variety of perspectives from academic scholars, policy practitioners, activists and sex workers themselves. In so doing, the book advances a queer politics of sex work that aims to disrupt heteronormative logics whilst also making space for different voices in academic and political debates about commercial sex. This unique and multidisciplinary volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of the global sex trade and of gender, sexuality, feminism and queer theory more broadly, as well as policymakers, activists and practitioners interested in the politics and practice of sex work in local, national and international contexts"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aProstitution.
650 0 $aSex-oriented businesses.
650 0 $aGays.
650 0 $aQueer theory.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aLaing, Mary Whowell.