Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Jacobin)

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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Jacobin)

Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come from sex workers themselves, and rarely do they deviate from the position that sex workers must be rescued from their condition, and the industry simply abolished - a position common among feminists and conservatives alike.

In Playing the Whore, journalist Melissa Gira Grant turns these pieties on their head, arguing for an overhaul in the way we think about sex work. Based on ten years of writing and reporting on the sex trade, and grounded in her experience as an organizer, advocate, and former sex worker, Playing the Whore dismantles pervasive myths about sex work, criticizes both conditions within the sex industry and its criminalization, and argues that separating sex work from the “legitimate" economy only harms those who perform sexual labor. In Playing the Whore, sex workers' demands, too long relegated to the margins, take center stage: sex work iswork, and sex workers' rights are human rights.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 75200
Color Navy
ReleaseDate 2014-03-11
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884352113409
EANs 9781781683231

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	75200
Color	Navy
ReleaseDate	2014-03-11
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884352113409
EANs	9781781683231

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Jacobin)

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