Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor
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Document Type
Book
Description
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.
ISBN
9780415912884
Publication Date
1997
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
Keywords
Prostitution, Feminist Ethics, Sexual Ethics
Disciplines
Feminist Philosophy | Gender and Sexuality | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology
Recommended Citation
Chapkis, Wendy. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. Routledge, 1997.
