Description
| Product ID: | 9781786604484 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Livable Intersections |
| Subtitle: | Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline |
| Authors: | Author: Sara M. Kallock |
| Page Count: | 180 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Central / national / federal government policies, Political economy, Gender studies, gender groups, Central government policies, Political economy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book uses an innovative case study on frontline sex work support officers to understand sex work policy and its impacts. What is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many sex workers, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, a crossroads where one is beset by vulnerability and regulation, where one is simultaneously blamed, victimized, and infantilized. Within this context of heteronormativity, sex working experiences are defined by multiple and overlapping forms of marginalization. Social support services are widely thought to provide a crucial bulwark against such unlivable realities by empowering service users to manage (and even overcome) their oppressive circumstances. Yet, such services are themselves often entangled with the social, cultural, and political processes that engender the disavowal of “sex” as a form of “work” and the attendant marginalization of sex workers. Bringing together insights from Judith Butler and intersectionality, Livable Intersections: Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline investigates the dynamics of frontline policy practice and in livability offers a new vision for designing, implementing, and valuing sex worker support services. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-01-28 |
