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Playing the whore : the work of sex work / by Melissa Gira Grant.
- Title
- Playing the whore : the work of sex work / by Melissa Gira Grant.
- Author
- Grant, Melissa Gira
- Publication
- London ; New York : Verso Books, 2014.
- ©2014
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- Description
- 136 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Sex work and conditions within the sex industry are frequent topics of discussion in mainstream culture and media, but rarely do these discussions include sex workers themselves, and rarely do they deviate from the position that sex workers must be saved from their evil industry's position that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof repeatedly advocates. This work turns this position on its head, arguing that sex work is fundamentally a form of work, and as in other industries, it is not the labor of sex work that is illegitimate, but rather the working conditions within the sex sector that are abominable. Based on ten years of writing and reporting on the sex trade, and grounded in the author's personal experience as a sex worker, community organizer, and health educator, 'Playing the Whore' dismantles pervasive myths of prostitution, criticizes conditions within the sex industry, and argues that separating sex work from the "legitimate" economy only harms those who perform sexual labor--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Jacobin series
- Uniform Title
- Jacobin series
- Alternative Title
- Work of sex work
- Subject
- Prostitution
- Prostitution > Law and legislation
- Prostitutes
- Prostitutes > Legal status, laws, etc
- Prostitutes > Attitudes
- Sex work > Law and legislation
- Sex workers > Legal status, laws, etc
- Sex workers > Attitudes
- Sex Work
- Sex Workers
- Prostituées
- Prostituées > Attitudes
- Prostitution
- prostitutes
- prostitution
- Family and Relationships
- Prostitutes > Attitudes
- Prostituierte
- Akteur
- Soziale Kontrolle
- Überwachung
- Sex work
- Feminist theory
- Sex industry
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The police -- The prostitute -- The work -- The debate -- The industry -- The peephole -- The stigma -- The other women -- The saviors -- The movement.
- ISBN
- 9781781683231
- 1781683239
- 9781781683248 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781781686386 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 871337934
- SCSB-12815226
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library