... V FEMINISM, SEX WORK, AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY firdous azim Keeping Sexuality on the Agenda The Sex Workers’ Movement in Bangladesh THE HISTORY OF THE women’s movement in Bangladesh can be seen as a struggle to establish...

... chapter four Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities pectacular representations of women as passive and naive victims lured or tricked into sex work are prominent in in- ternational human...

... how the overlapping sex offender, queer, and criminalization/incarceration organizing tensions provide an opportunity to reflect on the wider implications of the authors’ very local work and to build shared analysis. This essay describes the personal experiences of a woman who, in September 2010...

...KATHERINE M. FRANKE Putting Sex to Work When I was living in New Haven a number of years ago, a miracle hap- pened that drew people by the thousands to witness evidence of the Divine. A crucifix had been found to appear in the body of an oak tree in the middle of Worchester Square. I went...

... ashwini sukthankar Queering Approaches to Sex, Gender, and Labor in India Examining Paths to Sex Worker Unionism OVER THE LAST DECADE it has become increasingly common to hear, in an Indian context, articulations such as ‘‘sex work...

...- pology students in my fieldwork seminar that their fieldwork will never be ‘‘done as people’s lives continue to undergo changes, I was unprepared for the extent and rapidity of the changes in Sosúa and in Sosúans’ lives. Elena’s Life after Sex Work Because I opened this book with Elena, it seems...

... conjunction with a di√erent work of cinematic sex tourism— the video series 101 Asian Debutantes (1995–98). Self-advertised as the 1 selling Asian series’’ of gonzo, or popular cinéma vérité, pornography, 101 Asian Debutantes presents an ethnically ambiguous white American or...

... disability but also specific impairments as socially constructed categories. That is, in addi- 314  Lennard J. Davis tion to asking what social barriers oppress sex addicts, we must also ask how sexual addiction came to be understood as a disorder and what ideological work its...

... incidences of lesbian parenting from the 1930s to 1960s resulted from previous marriages, pregnancies during prostitution (sex work), or relationships with women who had previously had children in either of these settings. Kennedy and Davis found that although most of the lesbians who had children...

... to date the discourses of hiv prevention and harm reduction have worked mainly to install a sovereign subject at the sites you might least expect to find one.≥ There are good reasons for this: for one, it is wrong to assume that sex and drugs are completely exceptional or entirely beyond the realm...

... American Cen- tury This single insight—still suspended in the nonsense of debate around the film—is the sole contribution of Moore’s latest work, and it is one that he makes despite his preoccupation with the waning integrity of relations between white Middle America and its government. This...

... III THE SEX TRADE 4. SOSÚA’S SEX WORKERS: THEIR FAMILIES AND WORKING LIVES I come from a poor family, with little skills, what else could I do? My husband left and gives me no money for the children. I have to make money for my children.— Response I often heard in interviews to my...

... Commercial sex work is regulated in Dakar, and those women who are registered with the state must attend regular health checks at the state clinic. This chapter examines the history of policing, data gathering, and care practiced at the clinic and the integration of biomedical research into its...

... a Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla susan m. gauss uring the labor conflicts of the...

... that prohibits the purchase of sexual ser vices. Th e law was directly inspired by feminists like the American legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, who insists that paying or receiving money for sex is necessarily and indisputably degrading, and that any kind of prostitution (the term “sex work...