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Taylor & Francis, 1997 - Social Science - 248 pages
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
  

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Enter the world of academia as it specifically relates to women's sexuality and sexual rights. Wendy Chapkis writes about women who voluntarily enter into the "erotic labor" industry. In America ...

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I wanted this book to go further. Not that it didn't - Wendy Chapkis takes the reader to places unexpected as it is, especially in discussing issues in countries other than America. Still - if this ...

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Contents

The Meaning of Sex
11
Sexual Slavery
41
The Emotional Labor of Sex
69
Locating Difference
97
Prohibition and Informal Tolerance
131
Legalization Regulation and Licensing
155
Sex Worker SelfAdvocacy
181
Compromising Positions
211
Notes
232
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About the author (1997)

Wendy Chapkis is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Southern Maine, Portland.

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