Janemaree Maher, Sharon Pickering, Alison Gerard

Sex Work

Labour, Mobility and Sexual Services

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This books draws on extensive interviews with sex workers and regulators in the sexual services industry, examining their working lives, practices, labour market conditions and their engagement with domestic and international regulatory frameworks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780415630665
• ISBN-10: 0415630665
• Artikelnr.: 42194286

Autorenporträt

JaneMaree Maher is an Associate Professor and currently Director in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University, Australia. She is co-editor with Wendy Chavkin of The Globalization of Motherhood (Routledge, 2010) and also co-editor with Maggie Kirkman and Kay Torney Souter of The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of birth, fertility, and loss (Meridian, 2002). Sharon Pickering is Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. she currently leads a series of ARC projects focusing on the intersections of security and migration and is Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Alison Gerard is Senior Lecturer in Justice Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is a lawyer with ten years experience in criminal, human rights and refugee law, both in Australia and Southeast Asia. Her doctural research examined the impact of the securitization of migration on refugee women seeking entry to the European Union. She recently co-authored an article on this research that has been published by the British Journal of Criminology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The New Intimacies and Mobilities of Sex Work: Who does it, where and
why? 2. Money, Women's Work Conditions and Sexual Services 3. In The Room
and Beyond: Keeping it Nice with the Clients 4. 'Giving my Body a Break':
Health, Well-Being and the Physical Economies of Sexual Service 5.
Regulating Sex Work: The Noise and Confusion of Sexual Regulation 6. Sexual
Services in the Contemporary World 7. Conclusion