Reading Sex Work - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478021055 ISBN 13: 9781478021056

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2021

Synopsis

In this special issue, contributors theorize sexual labor as both work and a site of labor resistance and transformation. Rather than critiquing sex work itself, they consider what scholars of migration, sexuality, digital labor, and service work can learn from sex workers' interventions into their own conditions, including critical insights into power and control, gendered labor, and collective organizing. They critique the introduction of respectability politics into sex worker activism; study the insights of Black trans women sex workers into labor and the pleasures it affords; and explore erotic labor as an escape from work that leads the way to an antiwork politics of refusal and community care. Contributors to this issue highlight sex workers' own production of knowledge for navigating racial capitalism, state violence, and economic precarity.

Contributors. femi babylon, Camille Barbagallo, Heather Berg, Thaddeus Blanchette, Vanessa Carlisle, Julian Glover, Kate Hardy, Annie McClanahan, Gregory Mitchell, Jon-David Settell, Svati Shah, Jayne Swift

About this title

About the Author

Heather Berg is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478021055
• ISBN 13: 9781478021056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Berg Heather