Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale

Herausgeber: Bjønness, Jeanett; Skilbrei, May-Len; Nencel, Lorraine

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Produktbeschreibung

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781138613065
• ISBN-10: 1138613061
• Artikelnr.: 59994101

Autorenporträt

Jeanett Bjønness is an anthropologist, and Assistant Professor at Center for alcohol and drug research, Aarhus University. Her main research includes work on prostitution and sugardating, and aspects of identity, gender and class related to the exchange of sexual services, as well as young peoples¿ identity strategies and use of medicine and drugs to cope and perform in the educational system. Lorraine Nencel is Associate Professor at the Department of sociology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has done research on sex work in different continents and is an engaged scholar aiming to work together with sex-worker-led organizations to produce research that support them in their struggles for change. Her book Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru (Pluto Press 2001) and the article `Invisible mobilities: stigma, immobilities, and female sex workers¿ mundane socio-legal negotiations of Dhakäs urban space¿ (with H. J. Shewley et al.) in Mobilities (2020) give an idea as to the in-depth understandings that can be produced when using participatory, engaged methodology. May-Len Skilbrei is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests are mobility, gender and sexuality. She has done empirical studies on subjectivities in and policy developments on prostitution and human trafficking, and has together with Charlotta Holmström written a monograph and several articles and chapters on policy development on commercial sex in the Nordic countries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reconfiguring Stigma in Sex Work Studies and Beyond: Putting
Relationality to Work
2. From Social Deviant to Equal Citizen? Stigma and the Decriminalization
of Sex Work in New Zealand
3. Problematizing the 'prostitution problem' in Ethiopia: The
Stigmatization of Sex Workers through Moral Discourses and Their
Representations
4. Prostitution and the politics of respectability: Sex work, Stigma and
Representations of the Other
5.Sex Work Activism and Intersectionality: The Role of Stigma in Uniting
Sex Workers
6. Struggling with Stigma: Public Recognition as a Double-Edged Sword Among
Organized Sex Workers in Denmark
7. Knowing Who is a 'hustler': Stigmatization in Service Providers' First
Talks in Germany
8. Reconfiguring Sexuality and Stigma: Perspectives of North American Women
in Street-Based Sex Work
9. Resignifying the Client in Search of Respectability
10. The Lady and the Tramp: Management of Stigma in the Nevada Brothel
11. The Historical and Current Stigma of Sex Workers in Japan