2013/12/02 by Wendy Chapkis · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Engineering · #Sex work and related issues #Depiction #Silence #Expansive #Sex work #Politics #Gender studies #Perspective (graphical) #Sociology #Human sexuality #Sex workers #Work (physics) #Disadvantage #Political science #Social psychology #Psychology #Aesthetics #Law #Art #Engineering #Visual arts #Research methodology #Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
paper · doi:10.4324/9781315811512
openalex publication_date 2013/12/02 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/18
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.