Description
| Product ID: | 9780774838238 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Series: | Sexuality Studies |
| Title: | Red Light Labour |
| Subtitle: | Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance |
| Authors: | Author: Chris Bruckert, Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin |
| Page Count: | 392 |
| Subjects: | Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Red Light Labour, the first book to examine sex work policy and advocacy since Canada v. Bedford, showcases the perspectives of sex workers and activists and deepens our understanding of sex work as labour. In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but little new insight into sex work. Red Light Labour addresses Canada’s new legal regime regulating sex work through the analysis of past and present policy approaches and consideration of how laws and those who uphold them have constructed, controlled, and criminalized sex workers, their clients, and their workspaces. This groundbreaking collection also offers nuanced interpretations of commercial sexual labour that foreground the personal perspectives of workers and activists. The contributors highlight the struggle for civic and social inclusion by considering sex workers’ advocacy tactics, successes, and challenges. Red Light Labour promotes social and economic justice within a sex-work-as-labour framework. This book is a timely intervention that showcases up-to-date legal, policy, and social analysis of sex work in Canada. |
| Imprint Name: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-09-01 |
