Understanding Exploitation in Consensual SexWork to Inform Occupational Health & Safety Regulation - Hardcover

 
9783036518626: Understanding Exploitation in Consensual SexWork to Inform Occupational Health & Safety Regulation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3036518622 ISBN 13: 9783036518626
Publisher: Mdpi AG, 2021

Synopsis

The impetus behind this Special Issue emerged from a quest to move beyond

binary thinking in the contemporary period about people who sell sexual services,

including recent disputes about "sex trafficking vs. prostitution" and

"criminalization vs. decriminalization", to encourage theoretical and empirical

scholarship by exploring how sex work actually operates under different regulatory

regimes. The volume includes contributions from scholars of different social

sciences backgrounds based in five countries- New Zealand, the United Kingdom,

Brazil, the United States and Canada. The article topics range widely,

and both quantitative and qualitative research methods are showcased. The empirical

evidence presented adds to our current understanding of the complexity

of this phenomenon of sex commerce/prostitution, which is found to be largely

a problem of social inequality within and across capitalist societies. The authors

call for policies to address occupational and societal wide inequities faced by sex

workers across many countries.

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Publisher
Mdpi AG
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3036518622
ISBN 13 
9783036518626
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
180
Editor
M Benoit Cecilia