Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Routledge (1996), Edition: 1, 256 pages
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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member tole_lege
Interesting, (and mostly work safe, in spite of the fairly lurid front cover). An investigation of the women involved in live sex acts, what they think, etc. Not groundbreaking (well, I didn't think so) but mostly interesting all the same.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
256 p.; 5.98 inches
ISBN
0415912881 / 9780415912884
Other editions
Live sex acts : women performing erotic labor by W. Chapkis (Paper Book)