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Sex Workers Unite de Melinda Chateauvert

Sex Workers Unite

Autor Melinda Chateauvert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mar 2015
A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, "Sex Workers Unite" is a fresh history that places prostitutes, hustlers, escorts, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of America s major civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored and obscured, in this provocative history Melinda Chateauvert recasts sex workers as savvy political organizers not as helpless victims in need of rescue.
Even before transgender sex worker Sylvia Rivera threw a brick and sparked the Stonewall Riot in 1969, these trailblazing activists and allies challenged criminal sex laws and whorephobia, and were active in struggles for gay liberation, women s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition.
Although the multibillion-dollar international sex industry thrives, the United States remains one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution, and these discriminatory laws put workers at risk. In response, sex workers have organized to improve their working conditions and to challenge police and structural violence. Through individual confrontations and collective campaigns, they have pushed the boundaries of conventional organizing, called for decriminalization, and have reframed sex workers rights as human rights.
Telling stories of sex workers, from the frontlines of the 1970s sex wars to the modern-day streets of SlutWalk, Chateauvert illuminates an underrepresented movement, introducing skilled activists who have organized a global campaign for self-determination and sexual freedom that is as multifaceted as the sex industry and as diverse as human sexuality.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807061237
ISBN-10: 0807061239
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 145 x 218 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Beacon Press

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 1
“THE REVOLUTION IS FINALLY HERE!”
Sex Work and Strategic Sex

CHAPTER 2
“THOSE FEW CAME ON LIKE GANGBUSTERS”
Prostitution and Sisterhood

CHAPTER 3
“MY ASS IS MINE!”
Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics

CHAPTER 4
“RESISTING THE VIRUS OF REPRESSION”
Disease Vectors and Sexual Experts

CHAPTER 5
“ASSEMBLY-LINE ORGASMS”
Organizing the Sex Market

CHAPTER 6
“FUCK THE PIGS!”
Public Sex and Police Violence

CHAPTER 7
SLUTS UNITE!
Disrupting Whorephobia and Slut-Shaming

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

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INDEX