Body/Sex/Work: Intimate, embodied and sexualised labour: 13 (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113702190X ISBN 13: 9781137021908

Publisher: Palgrave, 2013

Synopsis

Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment.

Key Benefits:
- The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work
- Written by leading international experts
- Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics

Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.

About this title

About the Author

CAROL WOLKOWITZ is a Reader in the Sociology Department, University of Warwick, UK; Imported from ONIX; RACHEL LARA COHEN is Lecturer in Sociology in the University of Surrey, UK.; TEELA SANDERS is Reader in Sociology of Crime and Deviance at the University of Leeds, UK.

From the Back Cover

Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment.

Key Benefits:

- The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work
- Written by leading international experts
- Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics

Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113702190X
• ISBN 13: 9781137021908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Wolkowitz Carol