Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix Introduction: The Politics of Sex Work xiii Carisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic Part I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production 1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics-of-Location Approach for Studying Sex Work 3 Michele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz 2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team Study 31 Alexandra Lutnick 3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in Vancouver 53 Raven Bowen and Tamara O’Doherty Part II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences 4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution Policy 77 Annie Hill 5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of “Ugly Bodies” 99 Cheryl Auger 6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in Brazil 121 Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva 7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women’s Rights and Thailand’s Response to Human Trafficking 145 Edith Kinney 8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the Netherlands 171 Joyce Outshoorn 9. Comrades, Push the Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in Finland 195 Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, and Pia Levin Part III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing 10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex Workers 221 Gregor Gall 11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the Blogosphere 243 Valerie Feldman 12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Female Sex Worker Activists Creating Community 267 Yasmin Lalani 13. Sex Workers’ Rights Organizations and Government Funding in Canada 287 Sarah Beer and Francine Tremblay Contributors 311 Index 315 ...